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They pace eagerly to the newsroom, down the corridor lined with framed photographs of Pulitzer-winning former editors, each face alongside a mediocre story that once ran in the Crimson—proof of humble beginnings, to inspire ambition...
...February of my sophomore year, I leapt up those steps and bounded down that corridor on my way to the newsroom. I paused to glance over J. Anthony Lewis ’48’s hard-hitting piece on a Nieman fellow reunion, and David E. Sanger ’82’s gripping analysis of over-enrollment in Ec10. I thought, “If that’s how they started out, maybe my student reaction piece on the winter’s first snow storm is only the beginning!” I narrowed...
...newsroom is a factory. The desks and walls are industrial gray, the bulletin boards on its walls lined with frayed red construction paper. The long neon bulbs that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...
Like anyone desiring entry to the Crimson newsroom, natural light must pass a few tests before arriving: it filters through the steel steps that lean over an alley behind the building, then angles into the room through a glass wall of thick square panels. There are no other windows...
...proposal to switch the afternoon Le Monde to the morning failed in part because the printers' union didn't want to work nights. "France's daily press has reached the end of the subsidized economy," says Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum, an association of newsroom executives. "Now reality sets in, and the only possibility is to sell to big capitalists...