When Sean finally realized who was sitting in front of him, he blinked in disbelief.
He remembers reading about the newly revamped Philadelphia Herald and deciding that it would be a great newspaper.
At that time, I paid attention to the names of several people in the editorial department. Among them, the name of the editor-in-chief was Richard Norton.
At that time, Sean, who had not yet embarked on his journey in the newspaper industry, couldn't help but daydream that it would be great if he could also get such an editor.
did not expect……
Unexpectedly, Richard Norton was sitting in front of him at this moment, interviewing to become his editor-in-chief.
It is no exaggeration to say that at this time, Sean was happier than getting a B-class mysterious inheritance.
Calling Judy, who had been working overtime together until now, into the office, Sean, who didn't want to wait any longer, immediately signed a contract with Norton...
After arranging for Judy to get off work, the president and editor-in-chief closed the door and began to discuss the specific arrangements for the revision of the "Evening News".
It was already so late, so in order not to worry Aaliyah who was alone at home, Sean called home.
The two talked for a long time at twelve o'clock in the night and basically decided on all directions of reform.
Afterwards, Sean drove Norton home himself.
On the way home, Olivia found Sean holding the steering wheel, still smiling.
She knows what readers are thinking: She had given up hope of finding a qualified editor-in-chief within two days...
Unexpectedly, before the end of the first day, I found Richard Norton!
The turn of events is so unexpected, it seems that any human prediction of the future will make "fate" laugh.
Sean, who was in a good mood, tapped the direction sign and shifted part of his attention to a place no one knew about - the black mansion.
In the past few days, Ms. Hershey's followers have grown to sixty-five.
After the Angler incident, Sean manipulated Shawshank Rogers, summoned all the current preachers, and tightened their strings.
They are becoming more and more proficient in increasing the number of people. While the number of people is growing steadily, they have been able to prevent fishermen or people with malicious intentions from infiltrating.
More than sixty candles made the temple much brighter than before.
The power of faith has been significantly improved. Sean feels that the lady's power is getting stronger and stronger. His "information network" - Midnight Talk has also become larger and more substantial. Various information is connected together and pieced together into some events. The outline of the story, and the information is gradually spreading, letting Sean know a lot of secrets about the undercurrents in the downtown area.
Black knight and white knight... Sean exhaled with satisfaction and narrowed his eyes slightly: both roads are moving forward steadily.
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There are still six days until the new "Evening News" comes out.
The editorial department, which spent a day formulating new manuscript standards, welcomed a new editor-in-chief.
Norton's unsightly appearance did not hinder Norton's appointment - almost all editors and reporters had heard of the "Ugly Lion" of the "Philadelphia Pioneer", and no one, including reporter team leader Vincent, had heard of it. Dare to question the ability and qualifications of this old gentleman.
As a result, Sean was finally able to fully devote himself to the revision work.
The details such as the new name and slogan of the Evening News are basically already known, and there is no need to spend too much time and thought.
Now, the editorial department has to overcome difficulties mainly in two aspects:
The first is the quality of the manuscript.
The newsroom now has six reporters, all of whom were personally led by Steve Ryan.
Ryan is the representative of the "sensationalists" and "gossipists" among the many editors-in-chief.
The newspaper he edited was just a smelly piece of dirty paper in the eyes of progressives like Sean.
And the reporters that Sean has now...
These are the creators of this "dirty paper".
It is very difficult to make the articles written by these reporters have a "contemporary" temperament.
They are like chefs who are used to cooking country dishes in Leon, and they are suddenly asked to cook a Gallic meal with professionalism and exquisiteness...
Although it's not impossible, it does require a lot of hard work.
To solve this problem, there is no other way but "grinding".
And this word "grind" is a pain for both Sean and Richard.
There are probably few newspapers in the industry that do this: for the manuscript to be published in the issue six days later, the president and editor-in-chief personally review every report written by the reporter and edited by the editor.
Then, at the end of the day, we hold a meeting to point out the problems with the day's manuscript one by one, and send it back for reporters to revise based on very specific opinions.
This workload makes Sean feel a little tired.
However, in the process, Sean discovered another "treasure."
That was the young Mr. John Jackson who was bullied by the old editor.
Worried that there would be insufficient manuscripts in the first issue of the new edition, Sean asked John, who was originally the president's office manager, to also start part-time as a reporter.
This top student who graduated from the Department of Journalism at Columbia University, his manuscript completely met the requirements of Sean and the two of them, and even created a model article...
This process of adjustment and change was of course painful for Sean and Norton, but even more painful for the reporters.
After submitting a report that I felt very satisfied with and that had been successfully published without a second thought...
What resulted was revision over and over again.
People who have not experienced this don't know the torment of this feeling.
Two reporters even discussed in private that it would be better to leave with Old Ryan.
Of course, this is angry talk. Although they felt very painful, they also vaguely knew that it would be difficult for them to find a newspaper willing to accept them.
Therefore, for the sake of livelihood, they themselves have no choice but to survive this period of time.
Fortunately, with the patience of Sean and Richard, the reporters and editors were finally able to produce a qualified manuscript, and the pain of writing was significantly alleviated...
By the time all this was done, four days had passed.
However, the reporters who cheered because the manuscript was approved have just learned that "purgatory" has just begun.
As mentioned before, adjusting the quality of manuscripts is only the first difficulty before the release of a new newspaper.
The second difficulty is one of Sean's ideas - "Speed Edition".
The current leader in the newspaper industry, the New Testament Times, is a "morning paper."
This meant that its readers could read it at six o'clock in the morning while they were having breakfast, and the newspaper contained the previous day's news.
What Sean has in his hands now is an "evening paper".
Whether it is the license issued by the Holy Court, the reading habits of regular users, or the operation mode of the entire newspaper, it means that the "Evening News" can only continue to be published.
Sean was unable to pass reforms to change this evening paper directly into a morning paper.
On the other hand, due to the mode of news gathering and editing, the news published in the evening newspaper is also from the previous day.
This means that in terms of news timeliness, the evening newspaper is naturally "one day" later than the morning newspaper.
In terms of timeliness, evening newspapers cannot compete with morning newspapers.
Therefore, all evening newspapers will use side tricks such as "life atmosphere", "social anecdotes" and "celebrity editorials" to attract readers.
This is precisely the reason why the reform of this evening paper is so difficult - because by its nature it is a "filial piety" rather than a "social elite".
And Sean wants to change all that.
He recognized that the evening paper should have a sense of life. After all, there is nothing wrong with being good to read and interesting.
However, he also believes that newspaper news must be timely,
Only in this way can we be competitive.
Therefore, he planned to break the conventions of the newspaper industry and create a "speed edition" to print the news that happened before four o'clock that day in the "Evening News" of that day!
When Sean announced the news at the meeting, almost everyone except the editor-in-chief was stunned——
In their understanding, this kind of thing is impossible.
