We have many people who have chosen to come here for reasons of quality of life, who could have worked in almost any market but chose to come here. As a result I think our talent pool is much deeper than most newspapers our size. Roanoke is just a wonderful place to raise a family. Rush hour lasts about 20 minutes. Some certainly have.
People seem to be aware that there s a conscious effort on our part.
That s an interesting idea. A. Well, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about which contests we enter and which we don t. We went into our philosophy about awards, how we never go into an assignment thinking we re going to win a prize. We ve used the column to talk about how headlines get written, why we had fought a subpoena to have a reporter testify in a trial a host of the things we ve heard people wonder about over time. We re revising our professional standards of conduct now, and when we re finished, we ll write about that in the column and make copies of it available to the public.