II Develop your ability to guess the meanings of underlined words using the context. Write a definition, synonym or description of the underlined words.
1. But, like a Prime Minister and his Cabinet, he works very much with his chief colleagues as a team, and it is only through the work of a whole team of journalists of infinite variety and experience with different skills and different kinds of knowledge that a good paper can be produced. 2. A newspaper, and particularly a great national newspaper, is an immensely complicated organization, all of the members of which have to be able to work at speed because hours or even minutes count. 3. But all journalists must bear in mind that they are members of a complex organization which depends on many other besides journalists for its success. 4. All newspapers depend to a considerable extent on advertising revenue to keep going. 5. Equally, all those concerned in the management, printing and distribution of a newspaper are vital to its success: each is important in their own way as the journalists. 6. There will be other specialists also – on education, for instance, or local government or ecclesiastic matters. 7. And there will be on each paper a highly trained staff dealing with subjects of particular interest to women – fashions, interior decoration, cooking, home economies. 8. They are ambassadors of their paper abroad. 9. So all day and a good way through the night news is flowing into the paper. 10. The Editor makes the big decisions on policy both in matters of opinion and on the selection and treatment of news.
III Write the definition of the following words: Correspondent Reporter
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