The news conference is the time when every editorial department can pitch their wares for the day so the editor (at the back of the table) and the duty editor can have some idea of the strength of stories and photos for the front and inside pages.
Here, Ed Pilkington, home editor, reads out his main stories (the fracas over David Blunkett, Northern Ireland riots etc). Behind Ed, Harriet Sherwood, foreign editor is preparing to read her list, and behind her is Georgina Henry, deputy editor
