“If someone is seen carrying a copy of The Daily Telegraph, three things could be told about him or her. That he or she is educated, articulate, and opinionated,” said the man who guided us through the visit to a highly successful newspaper business in the UK.

And it pretty much summed up a better part of what I felt about this trip.

The visit itself was an activity under the Media Production Skills module that I had been taking at University of Westminster. And I am thankful that I had this chance to open my eyes, a Vietnamese Media student’s, to the world’s one of the biggest news industries.

The Telegraph office is located on Buckingham Palace Road near Victoria Station, led to by a passage that felt like a secret pathway to only people who knew. But after taking the elevator to the atrium, I entered a whole different space: ample by all dimensions, full of light, with professional but creative decorations of the “T” logo everywhere.

Pride was cast all over the tour that I could smell or even touch it in the air. And certainly they got reasons:

During the centurylong history of its existence, The Daily Telegraph Newspaper, or The Telegraph as a whole, has declared a class of literacy.

Upon the escalating development of information technology, The Telegraph has kept up to date as a pioneer. It established Europe’s first daily web-based newspaper in late 1994, and so far has been recognised with numerous awards for its online acts.

In terms of content, they keep a close eye on audience’s tastes and behaviours through all of their detailed and modern statistics.

Regarding the workplace, it is a professional but flexible environment so that the reporters and editors could be motivated, energised and comfortable to work long under the pressure of timeliness and high competitiveness of the journalism industry. There is a fitness and entertainment centre operating 247. And most importantly, everyone got the full respect in any case.

And to the vision for future, they are completely sensitive with hightech gadgets. Imagine a world that reporters don’t have to go to most dangerous and destroyed areas, but audience can still not only see but witness and experience the scenes in 360º. That is just one of their breakthrough plans for technology of news and media.

Absolutely, I was excited and proud too. No wonder why they were one of the market leaders in their industry — I was impressed by not only what they were showing but also how they were doing it.

The only other side that gave me contrasting thoughts was the third part of what a copy of The Telegraph would tell you: “opinionated”.

Because the newspaper is rather downrightly right-wing. They didn’t tell it that way, but I could interpret it anyways that it was biased based on the leading editors’ column of perspective, which is very likely to follow the Tory.

Just like they create a class, and at the same time they create a base on which people can stereotype.

Well, I come from a country where the press simply has no wing — not because the media agencies are equitable but because there is completely no left-wing for the other side to be called right-wing. They are fully one-sided.

So this trip to the Telegraph taught me quite a lesson that I greatly appreciate anyways.