Half the news room vanished at Scripps this Spring. Some left because of illness, others retired or got better job offers. For the lowly interns it meant free goodbye luncheons.
During one of these famous lunches, Kevin Diaz, the chief correspondent for the Minnesota Star Tribune Washington Bureau, said something that renewed my interest in becoming a journalist.
“I’m not a grammarian,” he said. I just write. Other people fix it.
I am often overcome by self-doubt and insecurities about my writing and reporting abilities, but those three sentences changed my outlook. Kevin Diaz, you’re my hero.
I am not a grammarian. I’ll just write, talk, listen, explore. Other people can fix it for me.
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