I got word yesterday that someone I worked with at the
Huntington newspaper many years ago had passed away. Harry Fisher was the news
editor. He was the guy who ran the copy desk: the people who lay out pages,
write headlines and catch spelling and grammar errors before they get into the
paper.
A lot of people who knew Harry use the same word to describe
him: nice. And that he was. He was not a corporate ladder climber who saw
people in the newsroom as rungs on the ladder of success. You know what you do
with rungs when you climb the ladder. You step on them. Harry wasn’t like that.
He was easygoing. He was soft spoken. He was easy to work with. He was one of
those guys who if I was starting a news operation from scratch, I would want a
guy like him on my team.
Here’s the story-style obit for Harry, for those who want to
read a little more.
