Most newspapers follow roughly the same procedure when putting together an edition of the paper. First, news editors assign newsworthy events to reporters. The reporters research the events and write their own stories on computers. Copy editors edit the stories and write headlines for them. The stories go back to the news editor, who checks over the stories and headlines. Meanwhile, photographers shoot pictures to accompany the stories, and graphic artists create any charts and diagrams that that will accompany the stories in the paper.

 

Advertising professionals raise money for operational costs by selling the space in the newspaper to advertisers. Artists, working with computer representations of pages on which space has been blocked out for advertising, determine placement of articles, photographs, and illustrations. They send the finished computer layouts to the newspaper’s printing facilities, where printing technicians use state-of-the art equipment to convert electronic files into finished newspapers. People in the newspaper’s circulation department ensure that the freshly printed newspapers arrive at newsstands, doorsteps, and newspaper dispensing machines as quickly as possible.

 

Courtesy: Microsoft Encarta 2005