My responsibility: to be accurate, complete, fair

Zach Mills

By Zach Mills
Summer 2003 Scholar

Posted: May 30, 2003

An architect designs and builds structures. A doctor seeks to improve the lives and health of people. A teacher cultivates minds, both young and old, helping people to learn to tap their potential. A business owner seeks to maximize his profits, and a star athlete endeavors to win the championship.

The most valuable thing I learned at Chips Quinn orientation is my responsibility as a journalist.

It is my responsibility to show what the architect built, how the doctor helped, the avenue the teacher took to make a difference in another’s life, the amount of money the business owner made and what it took for the star athlete to hoist the championship trophy in the air.

I’ve learned that it is my responsibility as a journalist to tell stories -- stories about the world around me.

At my internship this Summer I plan to accurately, completely and fairly tell the stories of the community of Nashville.

Zach Mills, a graduate of Western Kentucky University, is a Summer 2003 Scholar at The Tennessean in Nashville. Reach him at millz5@yahoo.com.

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