Written by Melanie Springer Mock, PhD, Professor of English at George Fox University.
For about a minute in 1990, I worked as a sports reporter for The Newberg Graphic. Back then, the local weekly had a building, a substantial staff, its own printing press, and enough funds to hire one person–albeit a rookie–to cover Newberg sports. Although I surely made many reporting mistakes, I only remember one: I misspelled a name for an article, and received calls at my desk telephone, demanding a correction.
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