Anyone who has ever been involved in a newspaper knows that running a newspaper is actually very hard and risky, and the official newspaper is good to say, after all, there are human and financial backers. Take the weekly newspaper as an example, usually there are at least two editors on duty in a page, each editor is responsible for the drafting and editing of a page per issue, there are full-time reporters for interviews, and there are special personnel in charge of the school team, so the workload is not very large. The newspaper's funds were allocated from the treasury, and the pressure was not great.

Like many tabloids that popped up at that time, our "Star" was a self-funded private newspaper, a weekly newspaper, with eight folio pages, and before I arrived, there were only three editors, Ouyang Liu, Xie Yan and Chen Jian, two women and one man, and only two art and layout editors. After I was officially promoted to editor, the four of us were each responsible for an average of two pages.

If we just assemble and edit the manuscript, it may not be too difficult, but the difficulty is that we also have to take on the interview work of the news content required for the layout and the proofreading of our own layout. Fortunately, the editor-in-chief of Yi is very trendy and flexible in his concept of running a newspaper, and he does not succumb to the inherent concept of running a newspaper. He advocated that the first and second editions should be dominated by current affairs news, but there is no need to stick to the traditional way of writing press releases, no matter what genre, as long as it is a good manuscript and has a certain social significance, you can make two headlines. This may be the reason why my two anonymous submissions have been front-page headlines for two consecutive issues.

According to the requirements of the newspaper, the editors of each of our pages are also responsible for assisting in the first and second pages of the news content and the fourth and sixth pages of the entertainment news.

The section I took over was a supplement, which published poems, essays, and novels, and there was no need for interviews. Editor-in-Chief Yi and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Fang Liang often tell me to pay more attention to social news and entertainment news, and to help me with the work of the first, second, fourth, and sixth editions.

This morning, as soon as Justice and I finished packing up the sheets and quilts, Xie Yan, who was in charge of the entertainment version, walked in.

I said, "Xie Yan, this issue of the newspaper has come out, you haven't come for the past two days, and I put it on the table for you." ”

Xie Yan said: "I have been out for interviews in the past two days, and I didn't care about coming back. Thanks, I'll take a look. ”

Zheng Yi and I went to the pool outside to wash.

When she came back, Xie Yan was reading a poem softly and emotionally.

Outside the window there is a bush of bamboo

It's like a lady

The bamboo branches are slender and have a fresh smell

Slim and graceful

Xiuzhu accompanies me every day

I sing love songs to Xiuzhu

Every day, thoughts are like a spring

The beautiful psalms come together into a river

This year's weather has been very dry

Evergreen plant of bamboo

In the bleak autumn wind

Bamboo leaves wrap my sorrows

Slipped away quietly

My heart is like this bamboo

The hair thinning pestle is there

In increasingly bleak temperatures

Shake and shiver in the wind

I want to follow the bamboo leaves and drift into the distance

I heard that there are poems in the distance

I asked the autumn wind for confirmation

The autumn wind is cold and howling

I asked Qiuyun again

Qiuyun had a dark face

That's it

I don't go there either

Just under the window to accompany the bamboo

Even if it's bare and thin

Even if it's a yellow-faced woman

Just survive this winter

We will have a second spring

After reading it, Xie Yan looked at the newspaper repeatedly and said, "Editor Da, the poem you compiled in this issue is good, it must have been written by a girl." ”

I said, "I don't know, it's from free submissions, I only know that the author's signature is 'Xiao Li'." ”

Xie Yan said: "It should be written by a girl, the feelings are very delicate, the expression is relatively feminine, a very good little poem!" ”

Zheng Yi said: "I also think this poem is very good. ”

As he spoke, the phone on Xie Yan's desktop rang.

Zheng Yi and I are each busy with our own business.

I just took out a bunch of manuscripts from the drawer and prepared to edit them, but Xie Yan shouted to me: "The phone number of the lottery station said that it was news and reports, and I couldn't keep up with the entertainment, so I'd better leave it to you." ”

Answering the phone, a sweet girl's voice came from the earpiece.

"Hello, I'm from the lottery station, to provide news clues to your newspaper, I don't know if you want it?"

"Yes, welcome! I'm Da Long, the editor of the newspaper, and I'm actually a journalist. ”

"I know, you guys are one in one."

"Yes, yes, yes, the integration of collection and editing, do you have any news clues over there?"

She said: "We have a lottery station last issue of a person won the first prize of five million, this afternoon at three o'clock back to go through the relevant procedures, are you interested in sending a reporter to interview?" ”

Intuitively, I feel like this should be a good news lead.

For me, since I'm an editor and reporter, I want to be a real reporter and try what it's like to do interviews.

I immediately agreed, and immediately reported to Deputy Editor-in-Chief Fang Liang, who in turn quickly reported to Editor-in-Chief Yi.

The editor-in-chief of Yi believes that the welfare lottery is a major event about people's livelihood, and our newspaper should pay attention to and report it, and immediately instructed me to go for an interview, and authorized me to take a taxi to go and reimburse the expenses.

I knew that the newspaper's funds were tight, so I insisted on taking the bus by myself based on the principle of saving as much as I could.

Editor-in-chief Yi said: "I have to be in a hurry to go to the interview, I'm afraid it's too late, so let's take a taxi." ”

I said, "It's too late, I'll just leave early, and I won't be delayed." ”

After lunch, I left two hours early for fear of being late.

You know, this is the first time in my life that I have taken a press card to cover as a reporter!

On the way, I remembered the conversation I heard between the two migrant brothers when I crossed to the Nanyue train station, and the words of one of them are still in my ears, "My nephew also graduated from university, studied journalism, and joined a newspaper as a reporter as soon as he arrived in Nanyue. Do you know what a journalist is? The Uncrowned King! That's a blue-collar worker, much more awesome than a white-collar collar. Eat and drink spicy food, there are people everywhere to serve you, and you can get a salary of more than 1,000 yuan every month...... ”

Now it seems that the migrant worker brother's original statement was inaccurate, and he reversed the concept of blue-collar and white-collar workers. The job is relatively easy and the income is relatively high, it should be white-collar rather than blue-collar, that is, the profession of journalist should belong to white-collar workers.

After changing the bus twice, I finally got off at Gangding Station. Seeing that it was still early, I wandered around the nearby streets for a while to see if there were any of our newspapers at the nearby newsstands.

I was very happy to see that there were two newsstands selling our newspaper about 500 meters from the street. I casually asked, and the two newsstands sold about fifty or sixty copies per issue.

It seems that Liu Xiaojun's distribution work is really solid!

When the appointed time was approaching, I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten one thing: I should have taken two copies of our newspaper with me when I went out.

It just so happened that I was also a reader, and I bought two newspapers to take with me.

When I arrived at the lottery station, I was directly stunned - it was a super beauty who received me!