Fill in the gaps with a suitable word.

The announcement.The editor sent an e-mail ... every journalist on the new desk announcing ... there would be an emergency editorial meeting at one o'clock . I had heard ... the problems the pape was facing and I heard ... one of my colleagues that the paper might be going to close. whatever it was , it was likely ... be bad news . At the meeting, the editor told us ... to tell anyone else yet , but the paper had been taken over by Ronald Morduck . He said he had only been informed ... the descision that morning. we were all so suprised ... the news that nobody knew what to say . I made a comment ... a colleague that it was time to start looking for a new job . The editor heard this , and finally managed to persuade us not ... quit until we had seen what changes would be made.