All the News

John Schram, reporter for the Lancaster Standard Newspaper, husband, and father to two boys, is feeling his age. His paper has hired consultants who seem too young to understand a newsroom and worse yet, have required the installation of low-flow toilets. He’s juggling multiple stories and because of layoffs is now tasked with writing a love advice column. He feels a little left behind and less astute than he should be with new technology.

On the home front, his seventeen-year-old son has lost interest in college, wears one beat up t-shirt and torn jeans exclusively, and hasn’t had a haircut for months. Meanwhile, the wife is looking for a little romance and his fiftieth birthday is coming at him fast and furious. John wonders if he’s lost a step to the young reporters in his office and if he can live up to his own expectations.