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Students learn from the professionals	Students from three schools get first hand look at Presses by Tia Fenton
Journalism classes from three different schools in New Brunswick visit local Newspaper Production facilities and find out how a newspaper is really produced. While participating schools create their own newspapers they make comparisons on how their production process is similar to the professional level. Tours of these facilities fill in the holes in the process and validate the individual jobs each student has in their own paper.	When one thinks of visiting a newspaper building you think boring, right? Well you are mistaken. When the Journalism 120 class went on a tour of the Moncton Times & Transcript building their eyes were opened to the hustle and bustle of a real newsroom.	busy answering calls, while the photographers were quickly setting up their next photo shoot. You could just tell that this was a great environment with editors talking and explaining their obligations to the newspaper. The Times & Transcript is a tour not to be missed. Members of the staff were very polite and willing to answer any question posed by the students. One of the tour highlights was the running presses and how the paper was transported from the printer to the room where the ads were inserted by automated machines. The whole experience was quite amazing and overwhelming. Everyone enjoyed the tour and was interesting how similar it was to our own paper production. This is a production sponsored by:
	Journalism 120 class at the Times&Transcript facility
Water Crossing to Telelgraph Journal Grand Manan High school ventured out for more than just a tour it was an adventure. They crossed the watery gap to the mainland to get a first hand look at the Telegraph Journal presses.	Mr. Daley and his gang entered the building and were taken with amazing interest about what it takes to create a daily paper. From the editors to the production crew everyone acted as a team player in this major production centre. With presses in full swing the class got a rare look into the heart of the paper. The telephone operators were