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Working for the news centre in London.

Visitors to London are always impressed by this exciting city, with its numerous attractions of all kinds. For me, London’s most interesting place is a huge building at 200 Gray’s Inn Road, the home of ITN – Independent Television News. This was my London for the past year. Once you get into the glass and steel giant, you cannot resist the feeling that you have come to the centre of the world. Hundreds of journalists and the most famous presenters are rushing around with reports of the latest world news – all just around you.

ITN is a huge news organization providing bulletins, scripts and pictures to independent radio and television stations around the UK. Whether you are watching ITV, Channel 4 or Channel 5, you will see the news that is broadcast from Gray’s Inn Road in London. For those who are more curious, it is worth coming to see the building itself. If you are lucky you can even see Channel 5 News broadcast live.  

When I first came to ITN, I was a student of radio and television journalism. Working as a young journalist in England, I had the chance to see the things ordinary people cannot see. I never thought that I would be sitting at a journalist’s desk in Parliament many press conferences of top ministers and government secretaries. I was doing my own surveys in the streets of London.

One of the strangest things was the way most of the journalists did their editing work. They did not use computers, but rather they cut up the tapes and then put them together with some sticky tape. I felt I was in a museum of technology.

If you happen to be in London, remember, the centre of the world is at 200 Gray’s Inn Road. Just take the Central Line of the underground to Chancery Lane station. It is only a five – minute walk to ITN. Stand there and try to imagine what wonderful things are going on inside. (A report by Greg Hudson, World of English)