The Modern Age of the Mysterious

v1 Chapter 564: painful transformation

When Sean finally realized who was sitting in front of him, he blinked in disbelief.

He remembered that after reading the newly revised "Philadelphia Herald", he had decided that the paper would do a lot.

At that time, I paid attention to the names of several people in the editorial department. Among them, the editor-in-chief column was the name of Richard Norton.

At that time, Sean, who had not yet embarked on the journey of the newspaper industry, couldn't help but imagine that it would be great if he could also get such an editor.

did not expect…

Unexpectedly, Richard Norton is sitting in front of him at this moment, interviewing to become his editor-in-chief.

It is no exaggeration to say that Sean at this time is happier than getting a B-level mysterious legacy.

Called Judy, who had been working overtime together until now, into the office. Sean, who no longer wanted to wait, immediately signed a contract with Norton...

After arranging for Judy to get off work, the president and the editor-in-chief closed the door and began to discuss the specific arrangements for the revision of the Evening News.

It was so late that in order not to worry Arya who was at home alone, Sean called home.

The two talked for a long time at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and basically set all the directions of the reform.

After that, Sean personally drove Norton home.

On the way home, Olivia found Sean holding the steering wheel, still smiling at the corner of his mouth.

She knew what readers were thinking: she had given up hope that she could find a qualified editor-in-chief within two days...

Unexpectedly, before the end of the first day, Richard Norton was found!

The changes and turns of things are too unexpected. It seems that any prediction of human beings about the future will make "Fate" laugh.

In a good mood, Sean tapped the direction sign, and part of his attention shifted to a place no one knew about—the black mansion.

In the past few days, Ms. Hershey's followers have grown to sixty-five.

After the Fisherman incident, Sean manipulated Shawshank Rogers, called all the presenters, and tightened them up.

They are becoming more and more proficient in increasing the number of people, and while the number of people has steadily increased, they have been able to prevent the infiltration of anglers or malicious people.

Sixty or so candles made the temple much brighter than before.

The power of belief has improved significantly, and Sean feels that the lady's divine power is getting stronger and stronger, and his "information network" - Midnight Confession has also become larger and more substantial. The outline, and the information is gradually extended, let Sean know a lot of secrets about the surging undercurrents in the lower city.

The black knight and the white knight... Sean sighed in satisfaction and narrowed his eyes slightly: both roads are moving forward steadily.

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There are still six days before the new "Evening News" comes out.

The editorial department, which spent a day formulating new manuscript standards, welcomed a new editor-in-chief.

The poor appearance did not hinder Norton's inauguration—nearly all editors and reporters had heard of the "Ugly Lion" of the Philadelphia Herald, and no one, including reporter Vincent, dared. Question the ability and qualifications of the old gentleman.

So, Sean can finally fully devote himself to the revision work.

The details of the new name and slogan of the Evening News are basically already known, and it does not need to spend too much time and thought.

Now, the difficulties that the editorial department has to overcome are mainly in two aspects:

The first is the quality of the manuscript.

There are now six reporters in the editorial department, all brought out by Steve Ryan.

Ryan is the representative of the "Sensational faction" and the "Gossip faction" among the editors-in-chief.

The newspaper he edited was, in the eyes of Sean and other progressives, a piece of dirty paper with a stinky smell.

And the reporters that Sean has now...

It is the creators of this "dirty paper".

It is very difficult to make the articles written by these reporters have the temperament "in line with the times".

They are like chefs who are used to the country dishes of León, and suddenly ask them to cook a Gallic meal with professionalism and delicacy...

Although it is not impossible, it does require a lot of hard work.

To solve this problem, there is no other way but to "grind".

And the word "grinding" made both Sean and Richard suffer.

There should be few newspapers in the industry that do this: the president and editor-in-chief both personally read every report written and edited by a reporter for the manuscript for the next issue six days later.

Then, at the end of the day, hold a meeting to point out the problems of the manuscript that day, and send them back for the reporters to revise according to very specific opinions.

This workload made Sean feel a little tired.

However, in the process, Sean discovered another "treasure".

That is the young Mr. John Jackson who was bullied by the editor-in-chief at the beginning.

Because he was worried that the first issue of the new edition would have insufficient manuscripts, Sean asked John, who was originally the manager of the president's office, to also start a part-time reporter.

This top student graduated from Columbia University's journalism department, his manuscript completely met the requirements of Sean and the two, and even created a model essay...

This process of running in and changing was of course painful for Sean and Norton, but it was even more painful for those reporters.

After presenting the report that I felt very satisfied, and that I was able to go through the draft without a second...

In exchange, it was revised over and over again.

People who haven't experienced these things don't know the torment of this feeling.

There were even two reporters discussing it in private because of this, it was better to walk away with old Ryan.

Of course, this is an angry talk. Although they feel very painful, they also vaguely know that it is difficult for them to find a newspaper that is willing to accept them.

So, in order to make a living, they had to get through this period of time themselves.

Fortunately, under the patience of Sean and Richard, the reporters and editors were finally able to grind out qualified manuscripts, and the pain of writing was significantly reduced...

By the time all this was done, four days had passed.

However, the reporters who cheered for the passage of the manuscript have just learned that the "purgatory" has just begun.

As mentioned earlier, the running-in of manuscript quality is only the first difficulty before the new newspaper is released.

The second difficulty is one of Sean's ideas - "Speed ​​Edition".

The current leader of the newspaper industry, the New Testament Times, is a "morning paper".

This means that its readers can read it at six o'clock in the morning, when they are having breakfast, and this newspaper publishes the previous day's news.

Now in Sean's hands, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is an "evening newspaper".

Whether it is the license issued by the divine court, the reading habits of fixed users, or the operation mode of the entire newspaper office, it means that the "evening newspaper" can only continue to be issued.

Sean could not pass the reform and directly change the evening paper to the morning paper.

On the other hand, due to the mode of news gathering and editing, the news published in the Evening News is also from the previous day.

This means that in terms of news timeliness, the evening news is naturally "one day" later than the morning news.

In terms of timeliness, the Evening News cannot compete with the Morning News.

Therefore, all evening newspapers will attract readers with such tricks as "breath of life", "social anecdotes", and "celebrity editorials".

This is also the reason why the reform of this evening newspaper is so difficult-because its inherent nature is "short of parents" rather than "social elites".

And Sean wants to change that.

He recognized that the Evening News should have a breath of life. After all, there’s nothing wrong with being good read and fun.

However, he believes that the news of newspapers must be timely,

That's what makes it competitive.

Therefore, he intends to break the stereotypes of the newspaper industry and create an "extreme edition", which will publish the news that happened before four o'clock that day on the "Evening News" that day!

When Sean announced the news at the meeting, almost everyone except the editor-in-chief was stunned—

In their understanding, this kind of thing is impossible.

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