If you picked up the Oct. 17 edition of the Chilkat Valley News, you probably noticed that the eight-page paper was out of order – making it difficult to find where some stories began and others ended. 

Further, a box on the front page teasing stories contained on the inside of the paper had a series of question marks instead of an actual page number – a prescient mistake as it turns out. 

While the…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...