WELL what better way to return to the blog than to share word of our new website.Yes indeed, the Enfield Advertiser is now live. Do visit http://www.enfieldadvertiser.co.uk/.
You can also read our editor Gary “I’m too busy to pee” O’Keefe’s blog to find out what he thinks of us. We all check it obsessively for that purpose too.
No surprises that have proven too shocking - yet.
The day after the site launched I walked into the office on a Thursday morning after the regular lie-in we are granted the day after our papers for the week are out.
I found our newest reporter on his way out after a phone-in about a forensics’ white tent that had been erected somewhere.
It turned out to be a shooting. Another one.
Five minutes after he’d gone, my editor suddenly remembers the internet.
“This is breaking news – come on Nadia – bash us out a few lines for the website.”
I’m still seated there in my post-deadline haze, leafing through our own papers – a weekly ritual that reminds us all that our hard work is more than worth it.
But as if instinctively I’m on the phone to our reporter – no time for shorthand, I’m typing straight onto the screen, demanding quotes down the receiver from eye-witnesses and filing the story within 10 minutes.
Said editor who was suddenly full of life, rushed off to his office to edit and upload.
It was all very exciting – like being on a national daily for a moment.
There is no better tonic to wash away post-deadline flunk-out or replenish depleted energy reserves than word of a good new story.
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