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A typical day

A queue of drafts and a clock. You read for sense first, then for accuracy, then line by line for grammar and style. You write the headline, check the facts and the names, cut 200 words because the space shrank, and send questions back to a writer who will not like them. Meetings about what is running tomorrow. In news the day ends when the page closes, which is often late.