In the Friday, July 6 edition of the Elk Grove Citizen, readers will find the article "Where the Streets have names" printed a second time.
Now, this is a bit different situation than our accidental re-printing of the same Elk Grove Planning Commission story a few months back. This time, as you can see in the corrections to the left, our reporter - Blake Ellington - had one of those days a reporter sometimes has.
Ellington accidentally misspelled the last name of the main person throughout the article, and then he mistakenly said an incident occurred in Alaska, not China as it should have been.
So, in a sense of community newspapering - which I believe is something only newspapers our size can do - we reprinted the article with appropriate corrections so the family would be able to cut out this article to save for future generations.
As editor, I wanted to offer readers an explanation for the re-printing and also an apology for sloppy reporting. We will do better. On the good side of the issue, the family did really enjoy Blake's article and were thankful their story was told.
Our goal as a community newspaper is to serve the public and our readers, we hope we're doing that.
Thanks,
Jeff Forward
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It is a like a good friend of mine who has been a beat reporter told me years ago. You could do the best investigative piece of reporting and it will be fish wrap tomorrow. Write a feature on someone and it will be framed on their wall for years!
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