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...Quick, quick, quick," mutters Chris Dore into the phone. The paper's night editor doesn't need to check the clock to know the evening's first deadline is close. Interruptions are briskly dealt with. Expletives are occasionally uttered with quiet vehemence. "Let's get this show on the road," he says loudly. Around him the paper's most senior production editors - a team known as the backbench - are assessing the last few pieces filed for tomorrow's paper by journalists from Cairns, Canberra or a few desks away, "tasting" them for tone and logic before flicking them over...
...around this time that Paul Whittaker's 12-hour day normally finishes. But as the paper's national chief of staff, his mobile phone stays on, and tonight he rings in at about 11.30 p.m., checking with Dore that the start of the British Open on his television means that a picture of Greg Norman the paper's been chasing since late afternoon is on its way. It's a long time since 7 a.m., when Whittaker's daily immersion in news begins: 11 papers online at home over breakfast, perhaps a call from editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell...
...they open the paper tomorrow, the residents of neither place will sense the skilled flurry that produced it. Words are moving at high speed among the subs now. Stutchbury and Mitchell have left; barring any major changes, it's now the backbench's call. "Whack it through, mate," shouts Dore. Just before second deadline he notices a name spelled inconsistently in a story. "Sorry to wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially...
...operations and medicines. Others said they were threatened with fines and the loss of medical help if they refused to be sterilized. MEANWHILE Bella Figura An alternative beauty contest in Italy chose a new Miss Cicciona (Tubby) to signal resistance against her countrywomen's worship of svelte bodies. Maria Dore, 36, crushed rivals to win the contest after weighing in at 194 kg (427lbs). Afterward she revealed her weight-gaining secret: pizza with mushrooms...
Spirits were high as the bus carried the men’s rugby team back to Cambridge after a win over regional powerhouse Middlebury two weekends ago. Harvard eked out an 8-3 win in 30-degree weather on key scores from juniors Tim Dore and Tre Sayle...