ABSTRACT
In the life of city editor Joe Carmean, no single day is typical, certainly not this one.
On the morning I visit his newsroom, Carmean is coping with an unusual challenge at his news organization, the 30,000-circulation Daily Times in Salisbury, Maryland. The paper’s press has broken down the night before, so today’s edition is being printed out of town, very late. The phone is ringing constantly from bereft subscribers, some of whom are even coming to the Times office scouting for copies. By noon, Carmean has reporters out on numerous stories, is readying an update for the paper’s website, and is fending off various crises because his boss, the executive editor, has been drafted to help deliver the late-arriving issues.
