Late 20s to mid 50s, with a bulge in the mid 30s. It's old, creaky, occasionally slow and no longer supported by the manufacturer, but a good system. The management is allegedly planning to scrap it and make the copy desk use the reporters' system, which is wholly unsuited to the task. Pagination is by aged Harris 8300 terminals, with some overdesigned color fronts done on the Macintosh. Maybe an hour of system introduction, followed by informal help from fellow rimmers.
Extra pages are okay.
Any new task, most recently sending stories to the new web page, falls to the copy desk. The paper won't pay for new dictionaries or stylebooks, so we have a mixed bag. Local style is haphazard and unpublished. There is very little collective local historical memory. We're understaffed and are to lose another position this summer.