INTERVIEW TO PAUL

Paul is a journalist who works for a newspaper called The Observer. He's been a journalist for 20 years.
He's also a sub-editor (that is someone who writes articles and make them sound interesting), and he writes a monthly article about celebrities, or people like Robert Maxwell.
He studied at a college called Printing College. Since he finished college he has worked for a music paper called Sound, for a paper called Echoes, and for the current Observer.
Paul likes his job because he is interested in music, films, books and much more and most a times he gets himself involved in such things.
He talked about some of the terminology in journalism, such as "copy", "pool grade" and "stand first".
'Copy' is the text in articles, newspapers, magazines, an so on.
'Pool grade' is the part of the article that catches attention; it might be colored, with bigger characters, or different styles.
'Stand first' is the little part of an article that works as introduction.
Paul told us that they always have deadlines at work and if they don't do the work within that time they might risk to be sacked. Deadlines are very important.
I think this introductory is really interesting because it gives us a opportunity of indirect contact with journalism. I also think if someone was interested in this industry sector, somehow he might have found some help in his final decision.