Ten days have passed since the meeting between Yin Minghong and Yin Yinyin. Today, the newspaper office finally officially opened, and Mu Qingmei finally went to work. In fact, the people who were hired have been coming to work for several days, but only now have all the people been recruited.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the third floor of the newspaper office was transformed into a large conference room. The members of the newspaper office were arranged in seats, and everyone wore a name badge to indicate their position.
Although it is a newly established small newspaper, the department arrangement is quite formal, divided into news department, commentary department, culture department, editorial department, circulation department, and printing department. Among them, the members of the printing department are not present, and the most people
Of course, the most important part is the editorial department: copy editing, art editing, proofreading, and typesetting. In this era where all aspects are still dependent on manual labor, the editorial department is almost equivalent to physical work in the brain, requiring multiple people to work together.
There is also financial accounting, but naturally the Jing family will send people to be responsible for this and will not recruit externally.
Mu Qingmei was naturally hired. Her current position is ‘Editor of the Ministry of Culture’ - although she is indeed an editor, isn’t it too strange to name the position like this!?
This naming must be Jing Zhengwei's bad taste, he is so disrespectful!
From the malicious but upright article in the editing exam, Mu Qingmei vaguely realized that Jing Zhengwei was a cultured person among profiteers, a hooligan among cultured people, and a second-generation ancestor among hooligans - domineering, arrogant, and wanton.
, full of superiority, it seems like he has never been beaten before!
Mu Qingmei observed for a week and found that there is a big difference between the Youth Newspaper and other newspapers - excluding the coolie department of the editorial department, when it comes to other newspapers, the news department and the commentary department have the largest number of members, but the Youth Newspaper is the cultural department.
The department has the most members, and the news department and the commentary department combined have only two people - one in each department!
Just from the position distribution, Mu Qingmei knew that what Youth Newspaper wants to publish is definitely not a current affairs newspaper. The most important thing about a current affairs newspaper is timeliness. Timeliness requires many journalists and editorial editors to support it, and reporters alone are not enough.
, reporters also need to have informants so that they can arrive as soon as possible if there is any news. For example, "Xuanzhu Bao" is a current affairs newspaper.
Emphasizing culture over news means that Youth Newspaper mainly focuses on themed cultural newspapers and publishes articles on a certain theme to attract attention. For example, "Battle Card News" publishes detailed battle reports and tactics of various battle card duels.
Various card tricks - Although war cards are relatively niche, card players are die-hard fans, and war card reports are not cheap, so this newspaper is still doing well.
Could it be that Jing Zhengwei intends to publish articles in the entire newspaper that openly encourage but covertly confuse? But that smell is too strong. People who read too much will definitely feel physically uncomfortable.
Just when Mu Qingmei was thinking wildly, a man and a woman walked into the conference room. The woman was dressed in Tsing Yi, with exquisite makeup and glasses. She was full of the temperament of "poetic and scholarly", but the bags under her eyes were slightly heavy, as if
As if overworked.
The man was wearing gorgeous clothes, with a handsome face and finely sculpted eyebrows. He exuded a lazy and wealthy temperament. This was not the first time Mu Qingmei saw him, but the more she looked at him, the more she felt that he looked like the one at home.
A cat that does nothing all day long except eat, poop, bask in the sun, and catch mice and rats—are there really people living as lazy as cats these days?
Everyone in the conference room immediately stood up and said hello: "Hello, editor-in-chief, hello Mr. Jing!"
The two people who came in were naturally the editor-in-chief of the youth newspaper, Qing Lan, and the manipulator of the newspaper, Jing Zhengwei!
"No courtesy, please sit down." Le Yu and Qing Lan sat at the main seats at the conference table and said casually: "And there is no need to call me Mr. Jing here, just call me editor-in-chief."
Mu Qing took a closer look and saw five big characters written on Le Yu's badge: "Editor-in-Chief of the Ministry of Culture"!
The editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief are different. The editor-in-chief is responsible for all affairs of the entire newspaper, and organizes and leads the daily business work of the editorial department, coordinates page layout, mobilizes interview manpower, etc., while the editor-in-chief is only responsible for business related to newspaper editing. The former manages the entire newspaper.
The big butler, the latter is the little butler who only oversees the cultural department of the editorial department.
In theory, the editor-in-chief should obey the leadership of the chief editor.
But after everyone took a look, they immediately understood what Jing Zhengwei was thinking.
This is what the editor-in-chief does when he has something to do, and nothing to do...
As for why Jing Zhengwei gave himself the position of 'Editor-in-Chief', everyone thought about it. It was probably because the eldest son wanted to experience the suffering of the people. He worked in the newspaper for a few days to understand the people's sentiments. It was estimated that a new editor-in-chief would be promoted after a few days of working.
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And since Jing Zhengwei is the editor-in-chief, he can use the name of work to find the editor-in-chief, and then go to the editor-in-chief’s office with excellent soundproofing effect...
Many editors felt that they had a chance to become editor-in-chief, or they imagined some inappropriate scenes for teenagers. Their faces turned red and they looked at Jing Zhengwei and Qing Lan expectantly.
Le Yu was not polite and asked directly as a person in charge: "Mr. Jie, have the arrangements been made at the printing factory?"
Jiezifu, a middle-aged man in his forties, was actually the editor-in-chief of Xuanzhu Bao before, but later became idle due to internal strife. After being hired by the Jing family, he returned to his old job without hesitation——
He lives a good life but cannot join the bourgeoisie. Unemployment has the greatest impact on him.
After all, Le Yu is not a devil, and he is not ruthless enough to ask Qing Lan to be the editor-in-chief from scratch. He can even play mobile games and get a five-star operator/SR/treasure character as a gift, so Le Yu took up such a job.
The experienced editor-in-chief can at least save Qinglan from many detours and help her get through the newbie period smoothly.
"It's ready, and the layout template has been preliminarily designed." Jie Zifu replied respectfully: "As long as the article is submitted, we will be able to print the first issue of "Youth Daily" right away."
Le Yu nodded with satisfaction, glanced at everyone in the conference room, and said: "Okay, I won't say any more nonsense. Since you have come to the Jing family's newspaper office, you should know who our Jing family is - put down your
Literary ideals, put aside your modesty and self-respect, this is not a place for you to write and preach, it is just a factory for producing goods."
No one had any reaction. As Le Yu said, they already knew what kind of job they were applying for. But having said that, Xuanzhu County, a large county in Nuozhou, couldn’t even accommodate a desk. It was really a man of character who wanted to mess with the law by writing.
Scholars have long been sunk to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
"The tone of "Youth Daily" is that of an entertainment newspaper," Le Yu knocked on the table: "Although it is named after youth, the target audience is not only young people, but also teenagers, middle-aged people, and elderly people.
The articles we publish do not need to talk about current affairs and other issues that young people don't care about. What we publish is the 'nutrition' they need and the 'reality' they care about."
"First of all, Lu Zhuqing." Le Yu looked at the art editor: "Can you draw color pictures?"
Lu Zhuqing was confused, and he subconsciously asked: "What picture?"
"Color Picture."
"What's the color?"
"Color Picture."
"You mean red, blue, and yellow colors?"
Le Yu's face turned dark: "If you make trouble again, I will ask the security guard to throw you off the third floor."
Lu Zhuqing, who has been reading poetry and painting for more than 20 years, is usually respected and polite, and his face turns red: "But, what does that kind of picture have to do with newspapers?"
Le Yu slammed the table: "Of course it does! What kind of newspaper is this? Youth Newspaper! What do young people like most? Sex and pictures! If we want to attract attention and get young people to buy our newspaper, then of course we have to vote for it.
Okay! And it’s not just young people, middle-aged people, and old people also like it. Don’t you, Lu Zhuqing, like sex pictures!?”
As soon as these remarks came out, everyone's expressions changed slightly. Several female editors blushed, and Mu Qingmei clenched her fists. This means that there is no such thing as "workplace harassment" these days, otherwise Mu Qingmei would definitely be raised directly.
Table, one fist punched Le Yu to death.
Lu Zhuqing was choked by Le Yu's words and couldn't answer. However, Le Yu was already impatient: "Just tell me whether you can draw. I plan to publish the whole picture on the first page. If you can't draw,
I had no choice but to hire another Gao Ming."
Disgraceful to gentlemen!
Swain scum!
Dressed beast!
God's law is clear!
How could God allow such a person to start a newspaper?
Lu Zhuqing's face turned pale with anger. He slammed his hands on the conference table, his eyes widened angrily, and he shouted at Le Yu righteously:
"I can draw!"
"If you can draw, you can draw. Why are you yelling so loudly? Sit down." Le Yu took out his ear piercings, "I'll tell you what to draw later... By the way, can we print color newspapers now?"
Mustard Man shook his head: "No, it can only be black and white."
After that, he tactfully advised: "Editor Jing, if you are too vulgar, you may be boycotted by the upper class and affect the sales of the newspaper..."
"Tsk, it's only black and white...but you can draw a lot of patterns in black and white." Le Yu felt a little pity. It seemed that Huiyao young man couldn't see the beautiful girl with blond hair, twin tails and heterochromatic eyes: "And don't worry,
You guys, your understanding of sex pictures is too superficial. You only know how to expose your legs and sell your flesh. You have no idea how magnificent the pinnacle state of sex pictures art is that can easily seduce people's desires."
When Le Yu said this, his confidence and sense of superiority could hardly be concealed and overflowed. It was hard for him not to have a sense of superiority - after all, he had never seen any erotic pictures that had appeared in this world for five thousand years.
many.
Don't underestimate sex and pictures, you bastard!
However, in the eyes of others, this has become another characteristic of Jing Zhengwei's romantic and lustful nature.
Like Mu Qingmei, she has gone from furious to a little afraid of Le Yu - how disgusting a person must be to say such a thing openly?
She felt that her fists would get dirty if she hit such a person.
However, Le Yu quickly returned to normal: "Let me tell you about the specific plans of Youth Daily."
"Youth Daily expects that each issue will be composed of three 4-page papers, which means a total of 12 pages. In order to attract attention, the first page must be full of high-definition pictures, which must be visible to middle-aged and elderly Xuan Zhuqing.
Can’t move my legs;”
"Page 2 to page 4, I plan to set it up as a 'knowledge discussion area'. I know you have a lot of questions, so I have prepared a template."
Le Yu took out a piece of paper and passed it around to everyone. After reading it, everyone was either surprised, suddenly enlightened, or extremely pleasantly surprised.
When Mu Qingmei got it and took a look, she immediately understood why everyone reacted like this:
"What are we searching for all our lives?"
"Selected answer——"
"Nietzsche (linguist, cultural critic, composer, thinker): There is no purpose in life, only process. The so-called ultimate purpose is nothingness."
"Wang Lufei (ordinary scholar): Freedom.
We pursue money just to prevent money from locking our hands;
We pursue power just to prevent it from blocking our way;
We pursue knowledge just to prevent knowledge from binding our eyes;
We pursue health just to prevent health from imprisoning our bodies.
When a person spends his entire life, all he pursues is to do what he wants to do. Do the job he likes, go to the place he likes, and stay with the person he likes for the rest of his life, that's all."
"Edward Elric (Alchemist): In my profession, there is such a saying..."
With just one glance, Mu Qingmei knew the value of this 'Knowledge Discussion Forum' column: it allowed many people to express their opinions and discuss freely around a topic.
There are not many similar articles, and there are even many. Many classics contain quotations from debates between two people. There are also many writers, poets, and scholars who have come up with different answers in different eras around the same proposition.
However, these articles are difficult to attract the general public, because they are either a master-disciple dialogue or a debate between two people, and there is always one party's point of view that is better than the other, so reading the full text is a kind of 'opinion output'. Opinion output is not
It's not good, but it always smells like preaching.
And the reading threshold for those different discussions on the same proposition across eras is too high.
And the most important point is that the grammar of previous articles does not conform to modern grammar. Even if it is translated, it feels weird and uncomfortable to read, not to mention the Yangchun Baixue in it, which is incomprehensible to lower-level people.
The 'knowledge discussion area' abandons the above shortcomings and combines all the advantages, allowing respondents to discuss and answer the same proposition using modern grammar.
Everyone is equal and respects each other. No one is greater than anyone else. As long as what you say makes sense, you deserve everyone's praise.
When Mu Qingmei read multiple answers in succession, she could clearly feel the collision of different world views.
She seemed to be able to see many people gathered together. These people had different identities, ages, and education levels. Some were unknown and some were famous all over the world, but they all expressed their different ideas for the same proposition.
The collision of knowledge.
A collision of values.
Collisions between people.
Mu Qingmei's body trembled slightly with excitement when she saw it. She handed the paper to the editor next to her, and then the editor next to her also became excited.
After everyone finished circulating it, Le Yu asked: "What do you think of the 'knowledge discussion forum' model?"
"very good!"
"very good!"
“It is simply an epoch-making initiative!”
Even the steady Mr. Jiezi couldn't help clenching his fists: "Editor-in-Chief, your idea is really great! I believe that once our "Youth Daily" starts publishing, the entire Dongyang District... no, the entire Huiyao
Everyone will pay attention to us! The newspaper industry will change because of us!”
What Mr. Jiezi said made everyone excited. Le Yu waved his hand: "It's not that exaggerated. It would be great if it sells well in Xuanzhu County."
At this time, Mu Qingmei asked: "Editor-in-Chief, how does the knowledge discussion forum work? We discuss several topics every week, then find people to answer them, and then select the best answers and publish them -"
Le Yu shook his head: "Why bother? I will think of a few topics every week. Don't worry, they will definitely be topics that will cause debate and deep thinking among readers."
Speaking of sparking controversy and attracting attention, how can the things discussed by more than a dozen of you compare to the hot topics selected by UC editor Zhihu fishermen in the huge gold rush of the Internet? Le Yu casually recalled a "what if tomorrow"
It's the end of the world. It feels like everyone in this conference room will be hurt and sad.
Mu Qingmei reluctantly accepted Le Yu's 'arrogant' idea and asked: "What about the answer? We have to find someone to solicit papers, right?"
"There's no need to look for people to solicit papers." Le Yu stretched out his index finger and glanced at everyone in the conference room.
