News from the hub

I'm in a newsroom. Yes I am. No more poxy magazines, where even the editor wears a ripped pair of jeans. No no, I'm in the clean-cut, suit-wearing newsroom at the Yorkshire Post. And it's not at all how I had pictured it.

It's like a time warp and I feel that I should be uncovering some kind of scandal in Watergate. The phones are browning from age, the filing cabinets are those grey drawers with silver handles and the name tag. On top of the cabinet is an old tv showing Look North news. Not very hard hitting.

And it's quiet! This is the most astonishing thing! I always thought that newsrooms were loud and manic, like the trading room floor in Canary Wharf. But all you can hear is the odd phone ringing and the photocopier. Where are the deadlines?

Okay, so this is not the best example of a newsroom. I'm sure everyone at the Indpendent is running around, worried that maybe one less person will buy their newspaper tomorrow. But actually, my best friend works at the Independent (god bless her soul) and I know for a fact that she is either emailing me all day or playing table football, which is a new addition to her office. Hmm. who writes these pages? My last blog was about citizen journalism and whether or not we should rely on the 'people' as a news source. But now i'm thinking that yes, certainly. Because I don't see anyone writing the news here...