Take a tour of The ET
Features writer Jemma Walton takes you behind the bylines to the heart of The Evening Telegraph:
Features writer Jemma Walton takes you behind the bylines to the heart of The Evening Telegraph:Films would have you believe that we're a bunch of mean- minded hacks strolling around with green visors on our heads, shouting "hold the front page" and bashing away at our typewriters.
That couldn't be further from the truth.
Watch the Superman films, and they would have you believe that newspapers are staffed by hunky handsome men who are typing up burglaries one minute, dashing off to phoneboxes, ripping their clothes off and saving the world the next.
Believe me, that really couldn't be further from the truth.
The truth of working at The ET is that we work incredibly hard to bring you the most interesting, accurate news, as soon as it happens, and we are proud of what we do.
If you're reading on this on the internet, please don't make a snide comment at the bottom of it, or you'll hurt our feelings.
Because we aren't mean, green visors are only ever seen in films such as His Girl Friday, the '40s Howard Hawks film starring Cary Grant as a tough talkin' editor.
And it's not just green visors which have changed since the '40s – during the past few years we have developed our website www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk, so that we can bring you video reports and breaking news throughout the day, and we have launched new sections of the paper such as 24, a daily guide to entertainment in and around the city.
But enough going on about how great we are – let's have a snoop around and see who does what.
Take a tour through each department:
The editors
The newsdesk
Features
Sport
Photographic
The sub-editors, or 'subs'
The internet
Advertising department
Planning department
Newspaper sales
From story to print
The sub-editors send electronically all of the day's ET pages to the pre-press department in Woodston, with the last of the morning's live pages leaving at 10.30am.
They make the plates from which the pages will be made, and do a final check of the pages, and then send the pages to be printed by our printers in Woodston.
Every day's ET is then printed, and should be on the newstands and ready to be delivered to subscribers' homes by 11am.
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