There are 251 articles by Otis Sanford :

• September 2018

  • Sanford’s goals: Inform, enlighten and provoke (when necessary)

    It was unusually cold in Memphis – even for the dead of winter – with a couple inches of fresh snow on the ground when I checked in at the metro desk of The Commercial Appeal on Jan. 10, 1977, for my first day as a general assignment reporter. My initial assignment, of course, was to write a weather story. Then as now, even a minor snowfall is a serious disruptor in Memphis and front-page news.

    By Otis Sanford September 16, 2018