Arizona Daily Wildcat

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 8:20am on Monday, December 28th, 2009

Daily Wildcat Looks To Move On After Newsroom Rift, The Tucson Weekly reported on December 17, 2009:

"The discontent came to a head—although those involved say conflict had been brewing for some time—after managing editor Shain Bergan was cited for disorderly conduct during ESPN College GameDay festivities prior to the University of Arizona's Nov. 21 home football game with Oregon.

Bergan was upset with the paper's handling of the misdemeanor, according to editor-in-chief Alex Dalenberg.

"After the incident at College GameDay, I suspended Shain for five issues. I felt that was appropriate punishment," said Dalenberg via e-mail. "We also decided to run a story on the incident, because Shain was a public figure at a public event the Wildcat was covering. However, even after Shain left for the day, he insisted on dictating how the newspaper published the story about himself. Shain continued to make phone calls and send text messages, some of them laced with profanity, making specific demands about how the story be run.

Bergan's version of the events is a bit different.

"I was suspended on a Monday," said Bergan via e-mail. "That night, I got a tip from a colleague in the newsroom that not only was Alex not going to run my statement that he told me he would run, but he was considering putting my headshot in the paper, along with quotes taken out of context from my statement and the police report. I immediately texted Alex asking why he was doing this and (was) not running my statement."

The full story:
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/media-watch/Content?oid=1647895