The Tucson Weekly has a story about an internal range war at the Daily Wildcat, the U of A student newspaper. From the story and the comments, I learned that:


  • Editor-in-Chief Alex Dalenberg was doing it with design director Maris Fisher—and at a journalism convention in Austin, “skipped their sessions and instead decided to spend that time having sex in a hotel room each day.”

  • Managing Editor Shain Bergan and photo editor Rita Lichamer were boffing, too—Bergan even covering his desk with blankets so the two could have private time in the newsroom.

  • And someone else, an alum of the paper, “nailed several girls from the newsroom. Including the EIC [editor-in-chief].”

Now all of this is the product of a heated back and forth to the TW reporter, or posted in comments, some of them anonymous. So whether the editorial staff is as randy a bunch of folks as they are portrayed is open to debate. (Bergan says the two were merely “reading books,” for example.)

It all started after Dalenberg did or did not fire Bergan after Bergan did or did not try to make the paper change an account of his arrest at a demonstration. All in all, fun reading.