Not that it matters to you as a reader, but the last six weeks have been a little strange for me.

I left the Weekly in August, but since I helped out with uploading each week’s issue to the web through the monstrous Best of Tucson™ issue, sent blog ideas to my successor David Mendez via Facebook message and I spent a few Thursday nights with members of the staff at Bumsted’s for quiz night, it sort of seems like I never left in some ways.

When Jimmy Boegle told me he was leaving to start the Coachella Valley Independent, I applied thinking that the gig would likely go to someone with a more prestigious editorial pedigree, but here I am, writing my first note for this space, which had the byline of someone for whom I have an incredible amount of respect for around ten years. It’s a lot to process.

Understandably, people asked what I have planned for the Weekly … and so far, I’d say the basic premise of what we’re going to do will stay the same. I want to help tell great stories, help promote what’s great about this town and help change what isn’t. How that manifests itself in print and online will change style-wise as we do some redesigning over the year, but I’ll also be asking for your input through an extensive reader survey and some focus group-styled events. Also, feel free to contact me via email (dgibson@tucsonweekly.com), Facebook (facebook.com/dangibson520) or in short bursts on Twitter (@dangibson520). Let me know what you like, dislike and what you’d like to see in the future (kindly and graciously, if possible, but who am I kidding, right?).

At this rate, the Tucson Weekly and the Arizona Daily Star will probably be absorbed into the list-churning Buzzfeed empire by 2014, but until then, we’ll keep trying to inform and entertain. I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity to be a part of that mission.

Wish me luck.

This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2013.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

4 replies on “Editor’s Note”

  2. Go for it, and good luck. I do not always agree (and quite often disagree) with the Weekly’s stance on certain issues, but diversity of thought is very important, and exposing ones self to opposing viewpoints is healthy for not only the individual, but for the greater society. If more people did that, there would be less polarization.

  4. OK, it’s Wednesday afternoon and this week’s issue isn’t posted to the web yet. What’s up?

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