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...Great North East Channel or, if the weather is rough, the western side of the Warrior Reefs; either way, they'll come past the stakeout position. Overnight, on a high tide, a boat has washed up on Dalrymple. Customs officer Peter Leeman and sailors Joe Homer and Peter Page take a tender to the island to investigate and find 11 stranded villagers from Daru. Cold, wet and miserable, they have no water, or matches to start a fire; the only food they have is for the funeral and they are reluctant to eat it. In rough seas and with extra...
...journalists from Cairns, Canberra or a few desks away, "tasting" them for tone and logic before flicking them over to the news sub-editors. Words must be cut, queried, inserted or rearranged. Headlines must sing and sentences gleam. Or as much as is 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...
...news conference. The media likes pointing the spotlight but doesn't court the same attention, and few see inside the conferences that hatch each day's game plan. There, sitting side by side, Stutchbury and Mitchell quiz the editors of the sport, business, arts and world pages on their strongest yarns. Then Whittaker runs through a list of 36 news stories offered by bureau chiefs around the country. Some stories will crash during the day, others will blossom and some will need more time. And one may become the splash, the main page-one news story, which...
...says Matchett, nodding toward Mitchell and Stutchbury's offices. "Most of the time the paper has a clearly enunciated line on the issue," he says. "Occasionally there's a twist in an issue, but it all gets debated out." If the leader is the paper's soapbox, the opinion page is its sparring ring. Choosing columnists and commentators to spark or review national debates, page editor Tom Switzer says he runs his choices past the editors, who "sometimes have an editorial angle they would like reflected on the opinion page." Surrounded by stacks of journals and back issues, Switzer says...
SENTENCED. MARTHA STEWART, queen of domestic advice and former ImClone shareholder; to five months in prison for lying to federal investigators over her sale of the company's stock; in New York City (see page...