Today, so far (as of 9:30 a.m.) is better than yesterday. It's been interesting talking with my coworkers about the dynamics of the paper. Housed in the same building as us is the Tucson Citizen newspaper, which is an afternoon/evening paper owned by Gannett and the AZ Daily Star is owned by Pulitzer. Apparently they used to be the cream of the crop paper, but have since lost in circulation as the AZ Daily Star is the morning paper. Because of contract agreements, they basically can't change to a morning paper. Anyway, the interesting part of all of this is that because their deadlines come near the end of the day, any stories we're reporting on have to be massively secretive or we'll get "scooped" by the Citizen. This means that the crime stories I'll be covering will have to be pretty hush-hush when around the police station or else the Citizen could get wind. We're not allowed to even discuss our stories in the cafeteria because we share it with the Citizen. It's really pretty exciting because you won't get this sort of thing in Phoenix because we only have two morning papers as opposed to morning and afternoon. It makes me feel like not all competition in newspapers has been lost and that's part of the intrigue of working as a journalist. You're doing the news and trying to beat people to the finish line.
Anyway, that's my exciting note for the morning. We'll see how the rest of the day goes...