Whenever there were sirens, I would say 'There were sirens in the Loop,' and no one else paid attention to them. After 30 years at City News, Steve Foltin works his last few hours on the night rewrite desk. Everyone here is looking for a job. Well, on this particular night, not everyone. At the time, Hoffman said he hadn't seen the new digs set aside for him and the rest of the staff on the Tribune Tower's fourth floor, but he'd gotten a look at the newsroom and the personal computers he would be using.
People are everywhere.
And that computer system looks very powerful. The stuff they were showing us it could do was mind-blowing. We're so bare bones here that this is going to be a big change. But more than anything, I'm just grateful to have a job. Hoffman scurried back to his seat painfully aware that not everyone sitting around him could say the same.