19. Dan Sabbagh: 'Editing news is intense, thrilling and ultimately exhausting'


Dan Sabbagh: 'Editing news is intense, thrilling and ultimately exhausting'

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/dec/31/dan-sabbagh-editing-news-intense-thrilling-ultimately-exhausting
Dan Sabbagh addresses the newsroom during his leaving speech.




  • "News always flows, sometimes it overflows meaning that g the Guardian newsdesk without cease via proliferating channels. Also every news editor that  on arrival in the morning organises their desk top to show the best of the news wires examples: BBC and Sky News, Twitter and other social media."
  • "The job is to cast, clarify and communicate."
  • In adition,  they contend with the constant stream of email and chat messages from around 50 to 55 reporters – these are the most committed in the business/hold the most responsibility 
  • the responsibility is to beat the rolling news channels and publish, within moments, a single paragraph starting from the desk that is filled out, go over it  and have it updated by reporters throughout the day.

  • Many of the most important stories come not from one big revelation but through patiently developing a theme – London property ownership, the influence of Russian bots, or sexual abuse and harassment.

  • In a industry where it is much more then it easy to feel flooded by news and information given and the challenge for the producter is not just to act quickly but to find ways to change the way people think.





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