Collecting stories

Mentor Don Worthington and Jarel Loveless, who will be working as an intern at Worthington's paper, The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer.

During dinner Thursday, The Fayetteville Observer’s Don Worthington shared with me a story about the time he watched the NCAA selection show with then-Louisiana State University basketball coach Dale Brown. Then a sports reporter in Louisiana, Worthington reviewed the selection show with another reporter in Brown’s home. There, Brown spoke in not-so-good terms of then-Indiana University coach Bob Knight. As journalists, we will all accumulate notebooks’ worth of clips. But it is not only tear sheets that we will acquire as journalists. Hidden between our words are stories that we can one day share with an eager group of aspiring journalists. And like Worthington, I one day hope to have an appropriate story for every occasion.

-- Andrea Rivera, University of Arizona, Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore.