ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW

National Newspaper Week is being marked Oct. 6-12 this year. 2024 marks the 84th celebration of National Newspaper Week. Since 1940, Newspaper Association Managers has sponsored and supported National Newspaper Week, a week-long promotion of the newspaper industry in the United States and Canada. The theme this year is "Telling Our Stories." Everyone has a story about how they got into the industry. Here is Micah's story.

Briefly explain your role:

Photojournalist, and I run the visual storytelling side of the newsroom

Why did you get into this industry?

To begin with, I wanted to write and thought I could be close to the things I liked, like music, sports and the arts.

What's your newspaper/journalism journey to today?

I went to school for journalism at Mississippi State University and worked for the student paper, which got me access to football sidelines and introduced me to people and places I hadn't been exposed to before. While I was still in school, I got a job as a reporter at the daily newspaper in the town over and ran its Starkville bureau, which really just meant I had to cover everything. That's where I picked up a camera for the first time and quickly realized photography is the form of journalism and storytelling that most resonated with me. From there, I started working for our publisher, Vince, at a paper north of Atlanta, and I went with him to a paper in South Carolina before coming here.

What's something you've learned in the process?

There's much more gray in the world than any black and white.

How has working at a newspaper changed you?

It's made me appreciate what can be the mundaneness of day-to-day life and to see, not just to look.

What's something you wish more people knew about your role or newspapers in general?

There is a real effort to get things right and that there are real people behind the bylines.

What's something completely non-newspaper related about yourself?

I have an English setter named Breeze, and she's the best.

As sports editor, Cole McNanna shares the stories of local child athletes', while photojournalist Micah Green leads the visual storytelling side of …