What is it like to be a modern journalist

What price does the modern journalist pay for living in this 24 hour digital age?

This journalist reveals the pace of modern life in a 24 hour period

I had a speedy day myself yesterday. It's one which might be worth recording if only to offer a cautionary tale to media studies students or the bright young things on City university's fashionable postgraduate journalism course: our trade is changing fast, the future is uncertain.

It started on the day of the Christopher Kelly leaks

the only new detail was the "60-minute train test": no second home allowance for anyone who can get home in an hour.
Both Sky and Radio 4 had rung before midnight. Would I come in next morning to comment?

before he arrived at his newsdesk

Some of my colleagues have been in for hours. No late, leisurely starts any more; in the age of the internet newspapers are close to being a 24/7 operation now: think speed, relentless speed.

Then

I normally watch from the press gallery in the Commons, as I have done for years. You can read the collective mood better, as you can't from the TV. But TV is how most people see it, so that's good too. Nowadays, I don't actually watch as much as I did because I have to cover the event on Twitter. Mostly I listen.

And on it goes-What price indeed