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As my time as Editor-in-Chief of The State News begins to come to a close, I have found myself thinking more often about what this title actually leaves behind.

And it is not the budget meetings.

Nor is it the decisions that feel larger-than-life in the moment.

Not the edits on difficult stories.

While all important, the position begs a deeper question: When this role concludes, what parts of it are supposed to stay with me?

In learning about James Allan Mitzelfeld, I found an answer.

Before he became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for exposing public corruption in Michigan, before he became a federal prosecutor and senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General, Jim Mitzelfeld was Editor-in-Chief of The State News.

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And according to those who knew him best, he never stopped carrying that experience.

“Being editor of The State News held a very, very special place in his heart,” said his wife, Lisa Mitzelfeld. “Always.”

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