"It is incredible what people let you do when you get close to them". That is what Simon said about the fact that yesterday I had the chance of observing a sub-editor doing her work, and talking aloud and explaining things to me. It was fascinating.
I didn't ask her to talk aloud. She just did. Not all the way through, but she did. And she explained errors when they happened. And they happened, oh lord, they did. :)
I'm feeling less uncomfortable, more capable of approaching people, but also a bit more annoying and less "news" to them. Which is good and bad. It is good because I am not supposed to be news, I am supposed to fade in the background. And bad because I don't have the excuse "hi I am new here" to introduce my conversations, so will have to come up with a different approach.
I will do a wrap up of the 1st week tomorrow, draw a route of the story as I understand it so far, make a list of issues I want to present to Simon, a list of questions I have for him, print the material produced -- specially the interviews -- and put together a plan for next week, including the people I have scheduled to talk to and a bit of a direction to the interviews I want to make to the head of news and the head of online.
One last point: I need to stop saying "right" every time the person I am interviewing stops talking. It is very annoying to hear when I am transcribing the audio. It must be annoying for them as well.
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