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This basically describes my first month perfectly

For those few intrepid souls who made it to the end of the last post, I question your sanity as much as I value your readership, so thank you.

The last few days have been really interesting working for the Santiago Times, because they serve a really interesting niche. Their readership is mainly made up of government and business-people, and a lot of what we do is actually more of a news filter than an actual news-generating service. We do the odd interview, gather research and such, but a lot of the task before us simply lies in finding the news that would matter to English-speakers and re-presenting it to them.

This in general means a lot of reading the Spanish-language dailies, supplementing it with new research and facts, and a lot of translating to English. While I didn’t really have any idea what to expect, coming in, I’ve been able to tap into the news of the area, which is actually what I really wanted more than anything.

My first day, Monday, I went in for the staff meeting, which is pretty reminiscent of CHP’s meetings in Santa Cruz, though this is made up of the writers rather than editors, so it’s just us. We went over the main stories of the day that we deemed worth writing about, and each writer claimed one or two stories for their own for the day. I ended up with a blurb about promising trends in swine flu and, finishing that, I worked on a piece about the dollar’s downward slide with relation to the peso. Both of these were pretty interesting, in my econ/politics nerd sort of way, so it was quite fun.

The structure of the Santiago Times is pretty interesting, (more…)