SCT publisher: Newspapering not always easy
Scott County Times publisher Brian Blackley acknowledges the job isn’t always easy, particularly when someone you know is at the center of a difficult news story…”Because my responsibilities here at The Times involve managing the overall operation of the newspaper (and the newsroom represents about a fourth of that in terms of personnel), I don’t get in the middle of most news stories. But sometimes no matter how hard I try, I get pulled in and generally, when I do, it stings…
“For our part, this is the kind of sensational stuff that we’d just as soon not touch. You see, we know these folks are not just people whose names are on investigation reports. We know their families and we’re their friends...”