ABSTRACT

Like many newsrooms around the world, the ones at Kunming’s local papers operate long hours. At the metro papers, a typical day starts at around 9 a.m., when reporters are required to report to the newsroom-or have notified their editors as to their whereabouts. Normally, the newsroom is rather quiet before noon, with no more than half the reporters sitting at their computers, some trying to figure out what story to work on. The place becomes abuzz in the afternoon, when people return from reporting to write stories and editors start their shifts.