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AwardWinning Columnist Author Journalist Professor Pages Fathers Day Special Buy Dear Dad Please Follow John Fountain on Substack My last SunTimes Column Not in The SunTimes 50 Cent a Word Diary of A Freed Black Journalist The Backstory On Nov. 25 John Fountain resigned as a columnist after SunTimes Executive Editor Jennifer Khotold him in a telephone conversation thatshe would not run a column he had written after he did not agree to one of her two revisions or revise that column in the way she had suggested. The editor39s revised versions included restructuring of Fountains original column as well as revised sentences and the insertion of the editors own words. Fountain subsequently published that column a tribute to the life and memory of a former journalism student Aaron Lee on Fountains website.