Mike Burbach, veteran news editor, says to orient yourself around the thing you want

Mike Burbach, veteran news editor, says to orient yourself around the thing you want

GRAND FORKS – The best way to go about doing anything, Mike Burbach thinks, is to organize around the good thing that you want. “Every project, every movement, every question, every point of view has an organizing principle,” Burbach said. “It may be explicit, implicit, conscious, subconscious, unconscious, but it’s there. We’re always orienting from somewhere.” Burbach, the editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, delivered a mediation on journali…