From Deseret News archives:
The measure of a man Deseret Morning News editor John Hughes leaves big shoes to fill
Only the foolhardy would play "top this" with him. Brag about your sea cruise and he could if he wanted mention the Royal Yacht and The Queen of England. Show him your writing award and he could if he cared to display his Pulitzer.
Most of the time, John Hughes holds the trump card. And most of the time, he declines to play it.
That makes him a tough read. It also has made him a fellow "well-met" in places ranging from the working-class cafes of Africa to the White House lawn.
He is discriminating without practicing discrimination, a man of class who doesn't trade on class.
"I was terrified when John Hughes arrived," says Jay Evensen, who, as editor of the Deseret Morning News editorial page, met with Hughes almost every day. "His credentials were incredibly impressive, and he had won a Pulitzer Prize for writing firsthand about things in Indonesia. Here I was, expected to share with him my ideas on the nation's foreign policy.
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But his 10 years at the newspaper have been watershed years. The paper is different now than when he arrived. It has a new name. It's a morning paper. It has a growing circulation. But more than that, the paper and its people have a certain focus and self-confidence that bears the Hughes stamp.
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