Bruce Mitchell's The Athens NEWS, a powerhouse legacy of local Ohio journalism

Bruce Mitchell's The Athens NEWS, a powerhouse legacy of local Ohio journalism

Bruce Mitchell, right, oversees a staff meeting in The Athens News offices. (Photo credit: ©1978 Greg Smith/imediaSmith.com. Photo only for use with original article.)The first time I met Bruce Mitchell, in December 2008, while I waited for our appointment, I noticed a sign hanging in the second-floor front office of The Athens NEWS at 14 N. Court Street in Athens, Ohio. “A newspaper’s duty is to print the news and raise hell,” it said. When Bru…