The next morning, as the winter sun started its ascension from the horizon, Britney yawningly roused herself from bed. After hastily gulping down a few slices of bread, she grabbed her necessary bag of documents, hopped into her car, and drove towards her company.
The Los Angeles Times, in the United States, is a broadsheet daily newspaper that is second only to the New York Times and the Washington Post, maintaining an unrivaled position within the journalism circle in the West Coast area. However, from 2008 onwards, due to the impact of the financial crisis, the Los Angeles Times had been laying off employees continually— from having more than 1200 staff in 2001, they downsized to just over 600 at present.
Competition was everywhere within the newspaper office. For Britney, a reporter who was newly confirmed in her position, the pressure she faced was quite enormous. Every day, she held onto the hope of finding good news material so that she would have stories to write.
