Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fleet Street From Within: The Romance and Mystery of the Daily Paper
Several reporters wait at the bidding of the news editor, and as fast as he gains ideas one by one they hurry Off in cabs and trains to work up by interviews and investigations the particular story which has been assigned to each. (all good pieces Of news are stories to newspaper men. It is a modern expression, and seems to have come from across the Atlantic.) Some of them go merely into the City or the West End, another may be dispatched to Southampton to meet a passenger on an incoming vessel who has a big story to tell, if he will tell it, whilst a third man sends a wire home to tell them not to expect him back again for a day or two as he has just to go to France. Murder mysteries, financial intrigues, Government crises, are all probed daily by these men in the same methodical and ingenious manner that they have probed them hundreds of times before.
By eleven o'clock the day's work is well in hand, and unless something very unexpected and very big happens the chief sub-editor and the news editor can already see tolerably clearly what the very last edition of the day will contain so far as general features are concerned. The linotypes have been working at top pressure, the printers' readers have given the last correcting touch to all proofs, the stereotypers in the foundry have made leaden casts from the papier mache moulds of sheets of type, the big machines in the cellar are plated with them, and at last the lever is pulled and the first edition of the day is a thing in being.
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