When she was working flat out on an evening newspaper 15 years ago journalist Belinda Smith had no idea her posture was damaging her.
* * * I am reading her translation into French of Stevens's last poems, "The Rock," which received a full-page review in Le Monde, the French daily evening newspaper.
"Journalism is not a profession in Yugoslavia, it is an instrument of public policy," said Pero Simic, an author and journalist at Vecherne Novosti, the evening newspaper put out by the federal Government's daily, Borba.
So the London Paper is to close, ending Rupert Murdoch's intervention in the London evening newspaper market, which, until the paper's first edition hit the streets, was completely dominated by the Daily Mail group.
The adventure began beside the River Trent on a warm, humid, summer afternoon when Nottingham's evening newspaper warned of a sudden surge in local residents seeking medical treatment for mosquito bites.
So in 1963, Keith Harper, a longstanding Bristol evening newspaper friend, by now representing the Guardian in the west country, helped arrange an interview for him for a general subediting post – he got the job, at £5 a week, rising by two guineas a week after a year's satisfactory service.
