Former Herald-Times Publisher Scott Schurz: 'Just make sure it's right'
Bob Zaltsberg
Former editor of The Herald-Times
EDITOR'S NOTE: This guest column was written by Bob Zaltsberg, who started working at The Herald-Telephone (now The Herald-Times) in 1976. From 1985 until 2019 he was the newspaper’s editor.
Scott Schurz Sr. sat behind his sturdy desk one evening more than three decades ago. The desk was organized chaos, covered in stacks of documents and newspapers.
On the other side sat three or maybe four of Bloomington’s most influential political and business leaders. They had asked for this audience. Schurz called on his relatively new editor to sit in because the group wanted to talk about a story that was being planned for the next day’s newspaper. They did not want it published.