The Modern Age of the Mysterious

v1 Chapter 576: the eve of the storm

Maybe it's because of the advertising effect, maybe it's because of the selling points Sean added to the newspaper. More likely, of course, is a combination of two factors—

The sales curve of Evening News, which had been flattening before, turned up a steep **** after the advertisement was published...

Whether it is annual subscribers or single-day sales, the daily increase is amazing.

What surprised the editor-in-chief of Norton most was that Mr. Dickinson's daily sales target of 30,000 within a week was actually achieved on the fifth day...

The entire editorial department is immersed in an incredible atmosphere. Even though they are busy every day, they are still enthusiastic.

However, with the increase in sales, the newspaper office began to expose the problem of insufficient manpower.

Due to the existence of the "Dickinson Independent Reporter's Office", the editorial staff is adequate.

However, due to the heavier printing tasks and more active advertisement negotiations, the printing marketing department and the advertising department obviously need to expand their staff.

Sean also published the recruitment information in the evening paper early in the morning, and this problem must be resolved soon.

Now the newspapers are spreading the word about this revived newspaper.

Not only because it has the extreme speed version, the master's serialization and the original commentary comics, but also because it focuses on the "pain points" of the whole society——

Focused on those poor children living in the downtown area.

Progressive elites take humanitarianism very seriously, and people who emulate the high life naturally care about what's going on around them...

It can be said that if there is no special report on "The Lost Generation", the advertisements in the Evening News would definitely not be able to achieve the current effect.

The duty of the newspaper is still to make news that people care about.

No matter how much Sean spends on surroundings, what he puts the most energy into is still topic selection and the report itself.

The high-echelon growth of evening newspaper sales has also become a hot topic recently.

It is predicted that after the week passed, Mr. Dickinson's newspaper will have sales of more than 40,000 copies.  …

The astonishing overtaker, in just a short time after taking over the evening paper, achieved an incredible speed overtaking.

Now, not far in front of him, there is already his old club—"Daily News" located in the 50,000-day club.

Suddenly an incredible spoiler appeared in the media industry. Sean seemed to stir up the clouds in the sky, causing those real top bosses to take a look at the newspaper industry in New Testament.

Those thunderous names have recently mentioned this young man from Leon from time to time...

Everything went well, but it made Sean vigilant.

In the process of running Night Breeze, he once encountered a night terror during a ceremony.

Since then, he has understood a truth-when a new thing thrives, it will always attract challenges from the outside world.

A tree grows in the forest, and a strong wind will come and destroy it...

Crisis often lurks just under the surface of everything going well.

Therefore, this young talent, who should have been proud of himself, maintained a rare calmness and composure when the joy almost dazzled everyone...

Unexpectedly, Xiao En's calm mood attracted even more admiration from the members of the newspaper office.

Everyone is rumoring that Mr. Dickinson has already foreseen everything at present, that the goal of this hero of the newspaper industry is not a mere 50,000 daily sales, and that he has long been aiming at the king of "New Testament Times" and "New Testament Times" in his heart. Glory City Post…

If someone happened to be on leave during Sean Dickinson's first day at the newspaper, and happened to return to the newspaper during this period, he must have a hard time imagining what happened during this period——

Those who doubted, resisted and even hated the new boss...

Now all of them have become his admirers.

It's just unbelievable.

However, although Sean was clearly aware of the upcoming challenge, he never expected that this incident would have such a big impact on him and the "Lighthouse Evening News" newspaper...

He also did not expect that tracing the source of a small mechanical failure would finally reveal a mystery that has lasted for decades.

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Today marks the fifth day of the ad campaign.

Everyone in the newspaper office is waiting with great anticipation for the day when the week ends and the "Evening Post" breaks through the 40,000-day sales volume.

And when everything was rushing forward like a river thawing in spring, Sean Dickinson, who was sitting in the office, suddenly heard some discordant and flustered voices amidst the busy voices.

What's wrong? What happened?

Sean, who had been worried that something would happen, sat up straight.

And his gaze happened to meet Olivia Fengling who also raised her head from the book—obviously, the candle bearer himself also noticed something was wrong.

Before the commotion woke up the people in the editorial department outside the door, Sean had already strode out of the office.

ring.

It was the bell of a cylinder press failure.

When he walked out of the office, he could see several people in blue overalls running up to the second floor, who seemed to be looking for Chandler, the director of the printing and marketing department.

Norton seemed to have heard the movement, and rushed out of his office.

The lion also seemed to smell something bad: "What's wrong?"

Norton and Olivia followed Sean, and when the three of them reached the door of Chandler's office, the printer just knocked on Chandler's door.

The chunky and stocky Chandler first saw his boss and editor-in-chief, then turned to look at his printing team leader: "What's wrong?".

"The printing machine broke down and got stuck!" The team leader was sweating and speaking quickly, "Something was thrown in from the window and the machine got stuck.

"Shutdown inspection required!"

Something was thrown in?

Sean frowned.

Is someone playing some dirty tricks?

The process of shutdown inspection is that the team leader reports to the minister, and the minister reports to the editor-in-chief or the president for approval. Since Sean and Norton had arrived, Chandler looked directly at his president.

With little hesitation, Sean nodded: "Shutdown."

A large printing press is the lifeline of a newspaper, and shutting down means stopping production. This order is at the risk of stopping the publication, and only the editor-in-chief or the president has the right to decide.

After giving the order, Xiao En and his party followed the printing team leader to the first floor.

The printing layout of the "Lighthouse Evening News" newspaper is a bit special. The main part of the large roller printing machine is placed in the basement, while the upper half of this huge machine is on the first floor.

The typesetting area and ink tanks are in the basement, and the printed newspapers will be brought to the warehouse door on the first floor by a conveyor belt~lightnovelpub.net~ for distribution to the back door garage.

Sean has visited many newspaper offices including "Daily News", and he believes that the printing layout of his own newspaper office is relatively the most reasonable.

As soon as he reached the first floor, Sean smelled the familiar smell of ink, but there was a smell of something burnt in this smell.

Sean frowned and raised the tip of his nose—in the obvious burnt smell, he also smelled an even more ominous smell...

A group of people continued to go down and walked directly into the basement, and the ringing of the machine failure became more piercing.

The printers were in chaos in the basement. The team leader yelled to pull the switch, and a young man rushed to the main switch and turned off the power.

The bell finally stopped.

The workers felt a little relieved when they saw President Dickinson and Editor-in-Chief Norton coming to the printing room.

Chandler scratched his face, with a gloomy expression, nodded to the printing team leader: "Disassemble and check."