By Steve Stratford, Deputy Editor
THE Weekly News has a brand new chief reporter in the form of senior journalist Richard Evans, who has been with the paper for a fair few years now. Richard was promoted at the end of May, and then promptly took two weeks holiday. Not a bad way to celebrate!
But now he's back he has embarked on a crash course on how to be my deputy because - glory of glories - I am actually off next week! My time has come at last, but with nothing to celebrate, unless you consider travelling on Virgin Trains to London something to shout about.
But it's not until you start to think about how you do your job that you realise just how much is involved. I'm sure many of us go about our daily jobs in quiet confidence, knowing how to do it and aware of the pitfalls and pressures. That's because we're used to it, we know what to expect through experience.
But when you try to explain it all to someone fresh to the field, it's baffling. It's just as tricky to explain clearly as it is to pick up and run with. Trying to explain the intricacies of page design, copy assignment, web publishing, captioning, standfirsts, slugs, straps, webheads, newsbills, photo-diairies, capping up, capping down, italicisizing, rewriting intros, putting new noses on stories, forging a drop-intro... well, I'm baffled just typing it and it's my job to do it every day!
But I'm confident all will be well, in fact it'll be better than well, it'll be great. And if you're reading this Richard, good luck. Oh, and did you spot my deliberate typo?
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