Back to work after two days off.
Today I learnt that as an editor I am not to assume what the reporter has written is completely correct and acceptable - I can rearrange paragraphs, rephrase sentences and even alter the focus of the news if the one selected by the writer is considered less important as opposed to something else also in the report. Even so, contacting the reporter first to discuss what he/she wrote and to run through changes you plan to make is a good idea.
The page editing is also challenging especially when there are mistakes and changes you must make quickly and correctly before the page is approved and sent for printing. Today one of the layout guys was slow in preparing one of the pages I was assigned to edit - had to wait about 1 1/2 hours to get the finished page. Even so, glad he managed to get it done before 11 pm.
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