Word: newsroom
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...Washington Post has tapped a Harvard graduate as its next managing editor, adding another alum to the paper’s top ranks but prompting an internal debate over diversity in the newsroom...
...possible before the deadline pounces. "Page one ? page four ? page three can go," Dore shouts, as the completed stories are slotted one after another into waiting layouts. At 9.17 p.m., two minutes late, the first edition is off, pages hurtling along their electronic path to the printing plants. The newsroom exhales and slows. But only for a few minutes. Second deadline approaches...
...Like any successful newsroom, the Australian's must be a mix of scavenger, sage and spectator, and a newspaper which claims the whole continent as its beat needs to understand sleepy Cairns just as well as it does the Canberra political hothouse. In the daily search for the obvious and the obscure, the paper's 60 news journalists, including 10 foreign correspondents, are the forward scouts. Ideas, tip-offs, leads and hunches start rolling in as Whittaker's morning gathers speed. Near him pictorial editor Paul Burston is working out assignments for the paper's 25 photographers around the country...
...Back at his desk Whittaker juggles phones and e-mails between checking online news bulletins and fielding text messages from a journalist chasing a terrorism lead in rural Indonesia. He's in the middle of his own whirlwind, the newsroom largely empty of journalists, who are off like honey bees, foraging and collecting. By 3 p.m. he's running again to make the next conference, which hears from each bureau chief via speakerphone, and decides that while the free trade story is firming, it needs more independent confirmation. But the paper is taking shape, and at the next conference...
...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 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within...