By TED COHEN/patch.com
The leading news guy in Maine is out - buried lead included.
Bill Nemitz announced on Twitter he's retiring from his 45-year newspaper career.
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Nemitz, a Massachusetts transplant, wrote a column for Maine's largest newspaper, the Portland Press Herald.
His topics have run the gamut and even included details about his own decades-battle against cancer.
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In his final column, Nemitz said he learned that the worst sin in journalism is "burying the lead."
Then he buried the lead, actually waiting until the third paragraph to say "this is my final column."
Nemitz also withheld the news of his quitting - the worst journalistic sin - four months from the readers he claimed he owes his life to.
He disclosed he had decided back in January to resign.
Nemitz admitted in the column that the job he really wanted at the paper - editor - forever eluded him.
