Chapter 74: Those Things in the Newspaper (Ask for Recommendation, Ask for Collection)
Regarding the matter of being hired by Beijiang Evening News, Luo Fangyi was very conflicted and had mixed feelings.
Entering the journalist industry is what she has dreamed of since she was in college, but when she saw what happened to Xiang Bei, her heart was half cold. However, the aura of the profession of journalist is indeed very tempting, and Luo Fangyi can't refuse.
This is like a big pit in the online literature world, even if someone has fallen into the pit, there will still be little whites one after another and jump into the pit.
In the end, Luo Fangyi also chose to enter the pit, and according to the will of her family, she came to the most influential urban media in Bac Giang Province.
Of course, her submission does not mean that the Beijiang Evening News is on the pole to ask her, and she will not recruit her. You must know that Luo Fangyi still has to go through a six-month internship period, and if there is any problem during this period, he will still have to roll up and get out.
But everyone in the circle understands that this is just a formality, and as long as there are no issues of principle, they can generally be passed properly.
The night before reporting for duty, Luo Fangyi rummaged through the cabinets in the bedroom, having a headache in choosing a satisfactory outfit. Although she had interned at the newspaper for two months, most of them were already familiar with her, but today is different.
All women are sensitive to their appearance. On the first day of employment, a well-fitting and beautiful dress will make people shine and be impressed.
However, she was obviously overly careful, and after entering the newspaper, except for Yu Chongming's announcement that newcomer Luo Fangyi would join the team at the topic selection planning meeting and those applause that were not enthusiastic, everyone did not react excessively. Sure enough, they are all people who have seen strong winds and waves, and a big beauty enters the pit, but there are no ripples, and the waves are not alarmed.
Everyone is busy, who cares about a new colleague?
If anyone insists on welcoming her or being excited about her arrival, I'm afraid it will only be Zhang Zhiyao.
This former newcomer to the department where Xiang Bei is located has now grown up rapidly, and has become the director of the department by taking Xiang Bei's place.
As early as the beginning of the opening chapter, we said that in the Beijiang Evening News, no one can be easily offended, because you don't know who else is above him. The same goes for Jang Zhiyao - no one knows who he is, and he never says it. Let everyone guess, the more mysterious, the better.
He is a smart man, and in the words of his colleagues, he is called a good worker, especially a mouthful of people.
Leaving aside how much work this person usually does and how well he does it, let's just say that his enthusiasm for actively approaching and reporting to the leader all day long is beyond the reach of most people.
Even after going north, his tentacles not only extended to the entire political interview team, but also helped and cared for all the newcomers who had joined the company in the past two years.
Among his colleagues, naturally some people don't like him. He soon became a controversial figure - a person with not outstanding business ability, but he ranks among the best in the annual assessment, he is so powerful, he is so capricious, who can you talk to?
However, the leaders did not think so, and their comments to Zhang Zhiyao were: Energetic, energetic, responsible, non-conformist, good at breaking conventions, and a rare talent among young journalists.
If you are a leader, you will definitely like such a person, who can not only make the sycophants feel refreshing, but also set an example among all colleagues. How wonderful!
What age is this, it is to break down the barriers of the department and let everyone make a difference, why should everyone be bound to the cage of rules and regulations?
This is a criticism made by Zhao Qingdong at a topic selection planning meeting in response to the private complaints of individual comrades -- to be precise, making small reports.
"There is a place for those who are promising," at the beginning of the year, Zhao Qingdong put forward such a new slogan. The biggest characteristic of the Chinese is that they stress rules and resolutely implement the requirements of leadership. Yu Chongming is a typical Chinese, so he also talks about rules. After going north, the vacancy of the department director is none other than Zhang Zhiyao, a promising person.
Zhang Zhiyao did not give in and gladly accepted the appointment. It's human nature to want to make progress, so why hide it and be hypocritical?
Luo Fangyi is a newcomer, and after coming to the newspaper, Zhang Zhiyao's blessing is naturally indispensable, not to mention that she was also assigned to Zhang Zhiyao's department-political interview team.
"Fang Yi, you're finally back again, welcome!" At the meeting of the political and cultural group, Zhang Zhiyao expressed his feelings, and he never hid his good impression of the beauty in front of him. Especially Luo Fangyi, a newcomer who has just stepped out of the campus, is not deeply involved in the world, and is easy to teach.
There are only four people in the political and cultural team, so the meeting will be very casual and feel more like a joint meeting. The other two didn't say anything.
"Thank you, Brother Zhang, and please take care of me in the future. ”
"Fang Yi, I'll give you two things. Zhang Zhiyao took out a package from the drawer.
Luo Fangyi is curious, is there a newcomer gift package?
Zhang Zhiyao opened the package, and there were two books inside, one was a summary of the provincial situation in Bac Giang Province, covering the economic, social and cultural development of all counties and cities. The other is a briefing on the main departments of Bac Giang province. These are all red books interviewed by reporters from the political and cultural group.
Zhang Zhiyao is really a person with a heart.
"Thank you, Brother Zhang, these two books are so meaningful. I'll learn as soon as I can. Luo Fangyi said.
"About your seat...... Xiang Bei is gone, you sit in his place. I asked the cleaner to clear his workstation. ”
If you don't do anything, Zhang Zhiyao will let people clean up this table after a while, and it is a waste of resources to occupy a seat. Zhang Zhiyao is a bold man, and he hopes that this station will bring good luck to Luo Fangyi, so he instructs the cleaner to pack up and throw away all the things to the north.
"Alas, Auntie, leave these things to me. Luo Fangyi looked at the stacks of books and notebooks being thrown away as garbage, and felt uncomfortable, especially the packets of coffee that had not been drunk yet, which were given by the old lady!
Practice has proved that newcomers have no choice, so even if Luo Fangyi has no good impression of Zhang Zhiyao, he has no choice. Between Zhang Zhiyao's blessing and sitting on the cold bench, she obviously prefers the former.
There is an interesting phenomenon in almost all walks of life: when a person first arrives in a new environment, he always likes to wrap himself in the old environment, which is not looked at here and there.
It's not so much a conceit as an instinctive self-preservation. It's like falling in love, no matter how good a man or a woman is, they always like to say how good their ex is in front of the current one. The ghost only knows what he went through to get dumped by such a good ex!
The same is true for Luo Fangyi.
Although she has just started her job, Luo Fangyi always has a complicated emotion in her heart: she always feels unconfident with this group of reporters who have been in the media circle for many years. Whether she can do this job well or not, she has no idea in her heart.
However, when others cast suspicious and contemptuous glances at her, she will have some conceit in her heart - this girl graduated from 985 and 211 colleges, and her mentor is still a master in the academic world. For me, a journalism student with strong roots and pure blood, these are all pieces of cake!
It is inevitable for newcomers to sit on the cold bench, even if they are blessed by a big celebrity like Zhang Zhiyao. It is also inevitable.
The cold bench of the newspaper is not only to let the newcomer master the business from easy to difficult, but more importantly, to polish the edges and corners of the newcomer, so that he can learn to bend down and do things, so that he can use it smoothly in the future.
This is all obtained from practical experience, and since it can be widely promoted in various institutions and units across the country in the past few decades, it naturally has its advantages!
At first, Luo Fangyi thought that he would have to sit on this cold bench for a year and a half, but he didn't expect that within a few days, all kinds of work came one after another.
"Xiao Luo, I have an urgent job at hand, you can help me go. ”
"Xiao Luo, there is an event in the city government, you can go and participate in it. ”
"Xiao Luo, I have an important document, can you help me sort it out?"
Everyone is so enthusiastic and takes care of themselves so much. Luo Fangyi was very happy and readily agreed. Later, she realized that the so-called urgent work was nothing more than a broken sewer pipe in this community, and there was a traffic accident on that road.
It's just such a small thing, and it can't even be the size of a tofu cube when it is posted in the newspaper, and sometimes it's even just useless, and it is killed by the editor-in-chief's office when it comes back.
What's even more disturbing is that no one will ever tell Luo Fangyi what is wrong, how to pick it up, how to write it, all by himself being killed over and over again, revised over and over again, and groped over and over again.
At this time, Luo Fangyi will always miss his master, Xiang Bei. If you are in the north, not only will you not let it go, but you will also help yourself proofread and revise word by word.
The topic selection planning meeting is a regular meeting of the editor-in-chief office of Beijiang Evening News every Monday morning, in this half-day meeting, each reporter has to report the report plan for the week, and the editor-in-chief office will also prompt the social hotspots, provincial and municipal activities and main topics of the week. In addition to all the reporters at home and the three members of the editor-in-chief's office, President Zhao Qingdong sometimes attends the meeting to listen to what good topics you have and which topics to focus on this week.
"Luo Fangyi, do you have any topics this week?" This week's deputy editor-in-chief on duty is Chen Lu.
The order of reporters' questions is usually based on the interview department and the order in which the reporters joined, Luo Fangyi was the latest, and the political interview group where he was in was the last group of questions. Therefore, every time it is Luo Fangyi's turn to report the topic, it means that the reporters can finally breathe a sigh of relief - the report session is over.
"Mr. Chen, Luohu Primary School has a summer camp activity, which is said to be based on the theme of safety education. Luo Fangyi didn't have any confidence in speaking, and when he said the end, he couldn't even hear what he was saying.
Chen Lu lowered his head and wrote it down in his notebook: "Fang Yi has just arrived at the newspaper office, if you have any work at hand that you can't do, you can take Fang Yi to do it together." Fang Yi, you should also take the initiative to communicate with everyone and actively claim some topics. ”
"Okay, Mr. Chen. Luo Fangyi said. This former beauty student bully has lost a little confidence and arrogance for a while.
"Mr. Chen, I am responsible for this," Zhang Zhiyao took the initiative to speak.
Zhao Qingdong and Yu Chongming listened attentively. It is a pleasure to listen to this kid's speech at the meeting, and every time it seems to be a self-review speech, it can turn around and brighten.
"On the first day of Fang Yi's arrival, I had already done a division of labor for her, and sorted out the situation in the field of division of labor. I was worried that he would not be able to get started for a while, so I let her learn and familiarize herself with the situation first. In the next step, I will arrange some important interviews for her as soon as possible. ”
Everyone originally thought it was a review speech, but it turned out to be self-praise. Zhang Zhiyao, Zhang Zhiyao, you should call Zhang Fuyou.
The last part of the topic planning meeting is the leader's speech. Yu Chongming has a great characteristic: he is not good at talking, but he is very chattering. At the topic selection planning meeting, as long as Zhao Qingdong did not appear, Yu Chongming was stocked, and the originally short meeting was propped up into an old lady's footwrap - smelly and long.
Every time he made a speech, everyone first symbolically picked up the pen and made a gesture in the notebook, and then quietly took out the mobile phone and blocked it with the notebook to pass the long time.
What Yu Chongming said at every regular meeting was almost always repetitive, and the most frequent of them were none other than those few: everyone must have a spirit of dedication and professionalism; the selection of topics for the newspaper must be implemented; it is necessary to conscientiously study and comprehend the policies, principles, and spirit of the meeting in the provinces and cities; and it is necessary to delve into business and work hard and earnestly......
Every time Yu Chongming said these words, he seemed to be trying to organize the language, so that his brain could keep up with the rhythm of his mouth, even if the content had already been memorized by everyone.
Normally, the pause between the previous sentence and the next sentence is enough for an old reporter to write a tofu block manuscript. When Luo Fangyi saw Yu Chongming's demeanor, he couldn't help but want to laugh a few times - there is such a strange leader in the world!
However, when Zhao Qingdong was there, Yu Chongming was a different appearance - he didn't say a word, always bowed his head to make records.
Zhao Qingdong's meeting rhythm is in line with his usual style: meticulous and thoughtful, not procrastinating, but the meeting style is also very strict. As long as Zhao Qingdong was there, the participating reporters did not dare to take out their mobile phones, but obediently recorded them in their notebooks. Even so, sometimes he would be scolded inexplicably.
Of course, that's not all interesting in the newspaper. Luo Fangyi also found that the topics of some newspapers seem to be very ordinary, but after the reporters add fuel and vinegar and explain and analyze endlessly, they instantly become lofty. However, after leaving the conference room, these topics seemed to be completely forgotten, and everyone picked up the easy topics to do.
Finally one day, Luo Fangyi couldn't help but ask a colleague, and the other party told her the truth: "Fang Yi, you will understand in the future." You have so much money for doing a good job, and so much money for a bad job, why do you bother to think about those major topics? Those things are all thought of by the leaders of the editor-in-chief's office, otherwise why should they be given that post?"