The graveyard shift is exciting when everything can change overnight

I’ll never forget the time Donald Trump kept me in the office until 7am

For a young journalist like myself, the night shift offers the rewarding opportunity to take responsibility and shape our coverage when news breaks in the early hours.

At its most basic, night editing the Daily Edition includes getting the front page signed off by the editor and making sure our articles are up to date when subscribers wake up to read them in the morning. Sometimes a story can move so quickly that you’ll have to replace the text altogether.

Should something major break late at night, we sometimes have to scrap the front page and start from scratch. It seems to happen in waves: with one particular colleague it felt like we were all hands to pump every time we were together on “the graveyard shift”.