A permanent creation every day
A charming host welcomes visitors.
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Thus, for the second time, our readers paid the “Sud-Ouest” the visit they make “home” every day of the year except May 1st. And I felt in their reception, in the vast locale of the rue de Cheverus, the same pleasure they would have in following a signposted route … and marked by kind hosts, who took them everywhere – or almost everywhere – where they had something to learn, remember or admire.
Thousands of visitors flocked to the “Sud Ouest” on November 20, 1969. The next day, the wild success of this first open-start operation made the front page of the newspaper.
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From the beginning of the afternoon, men, women and, what was comforting, many children took a keen interest in the various phases of their “ordinary” newspaper production which, as we know, is a permanent creation of each day. To learn about the mysteries of the technique, they took advantage of the explanations of our technicians, especially in the large workshop, where many were surprised by the clicks of the machines that “cut” tens of thousands of lead lines that are so many lines to drive
“Sud Ouest” and TV7 open their doors to the public
On Saturday 21 September 2024, on the occasion of the newspaper's 80th anniversary and Heritage Days, the Sud Ouest Group renews the tradition of open days to allow its various audiences to discover the scenes of a regional media group.
Crazy success of the “monsters” of the “South West”
Crowds are large around the “marble” in “Sud Ouest”, where the regional editions are formatted.
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Intense curiosity about rotary presses in motion
But, as expected, the “monsters” of our house, that is, rotary presses, aroused the greatest curiosity. And innumerable eyes lingered upon these gigantic machines “spewing” from all their newspaper mouths “broadcasting” this ever-changing news which, to great news dailies like ours, “is a dish best eaten hot.”
In our photo, a “marble” technician explains his work to visitors.
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The “monsters” of our house, that is, the rotary presses, arouse the greatest curiosity among visitors.
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As informative as the afternoon visit was, it was obviously between 10.45pm and 1am that was the most “exciting”. Because if “Sud-Ouest” makes two consecutive rotations of the dial from January 1 to New Year's Eve, it is precisely during these hours that it lives most intensely.
Of course, we would be delighted if, thanks to this short passage in our newspaper, vocations for the profession we have chosen were awakened.
These students in tight groups are all the more interested in their visit to the teleprinter room as, at the same time, the news was conveying concerns… Lem's liftoff from the lunar surface.
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In this regard, many looks from boys, girls and also adults proved to what extent they were captivated by a profession… which resembles only distantly – and fortunately – the descriptions in detective novels.