Missourian Executive Editor Tom Warhover reminded the reporters today to check our pieces for spelling before we submit them to an editor.
He said a piece went up last night in which “the great state of Louisiana and the name of a certain hurricane” were both misspelled.
I immediately checked the timestamp the blurb I wrote last night in the last hour of my general assignment shift.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 | 8:12 p.m. CDT; updated 11:55 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Updated.
Dang.
I guess this is why they call it a “learning experience,” but that doesn’t make me feel less like an amateur.
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