The nightsiders, however, are all young at heart. Most have been on the desk 1-3 years. We have a few career copy editors who've been hanging around for 7-8, though. Most section fronts are paginated, using Quark on a Macintosh platform. The inside pages are done using Morris Communications software on IBMs, and they're pasted up by composing-room workers downstairs.
Candidates take an editing test, but once they come to our desks, it's to work.
There's not much formal training. The day people work from about 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. The night people work from 4 p.m. to between midnight and 2 a.m. Extra pages are okay. I hope I didn't make any typos.