The front page has "front" Kevin.
That is the way to begin. To begin to write you begin with the conflict.
This is the quote that I would start with and then work backwards. To write about journalism is to write about the man who bites dog story.

“You’ve got to be contemptible if you want to get on in this business,” says Henderson.

Hi, I think you'll find that the late Nick Tomalin of The Sunday Times was the man who spoke of "ratlike cunning, plausible manner and a little literary ability". Murray Sayle would have been quoting. If not, then just about every journalism book on the other side of the world is wrong!