Bright and early, we arrived at Tara Street. A day in the newsroom awaited us. We were soon introduced to Caroline, one of the women who works at the news desk. Her role is to sift through the many emails, faxes and press releases that the Irish Times receives on a daily basis and decide which of them are newsworthy. She then forwards these stories to the appropriate departments in the building.
At 10:30, we went to an editors meeting. Around a conference table sat a number of editors for different sections of the paper. There was a business editor, arts editor, politics editor etc. They each presented the stories that would be going into their section of the following day's paper and the stories that they would be following throughout the day to come.
Later on in the day, we were introduced to Conor Goodman, the features editor. He is in charge of all of the content in the paper that is not news, sports or business-based. This content is found in many of the features in the paper including the 'Irish Times Magazine', the motoring supplement and 'The Ticket'. He explained that we will be going to see a movie tomorrow and will be critiquing it in our own article afterwards.
Following that, we sat in on another editors meeting, this time to finalise exactly what was going to be published. Each editor sat around presenting the stories that were ready to be put in the paper, and those that requires work.
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