Watching the Olean Times Herald, Aug. 6
One of the news staff writers recently wrote a fine feature story, so I emailed him to let him know what a good story it was. Part of his reply: "Feels good to hear positive feedback (because I know I've told you we don't get too much of it around here, good or bad)."
People don't work at newspapers for the money. I once knew a reporter who had a second job, stocking canned goods on supermarket shelves-and he wasn't doing it because he had a passion for garbanzo beans. This means an editor should at least frequently give reporters an "attagirl" or "attaboy" so they feel their work counts for something.
The reporter's quotation above speaks for itself.