Lessons learned in a college newsroom #1

Is it co-workers who are friends, or Friends who are co-workers? I know that I am not alone in saying that some of my best friends are the people I work with in the newsroom everyday, some of them. But the line between keeping a close friendship and having those same people be part of the collaborative effort that is the production of a newspaper/website is quickly becoming blurred. The solution varies from person to person, friend to friend and editor to editor, but the one thing to remember is that a good friend will be there forever, compared to the four years we have to deal with a co-worker.