Learn from your mistakes

One thing I learned a long time ago in my newspaper career is that mistakes happen.

You do everything you can to avoid them, but every now and then a misspelled word, the wrong photo or a typo in a headline sneaks into print.

It’s the nature of the business.

Our newspapers are small operations, and we only have so many sets of eyes looking at each page before it goes to press. Just a few weeks ago, I…