Along with weekly editorial meetings, I also have semi-regular one-on-one meetings with each of the writers on my staff. There I offer advice, constructive criticism, and suggest goals for the coming year. Sometimes they are very productive—sometimes not so much. Here is a videotaped meeting (the Mercury HR department forces me to do this now) that I recently had with copy chief and writer Courtney Ferguson.

Yeah, that could’ve gone better.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6Cw_3q1Pg

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

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