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Introduction; Kinds of Newspapers; How a Newspaper Is Produced; Origins of Newspapers; The First Newspapers; The Newspaper in the United States; The Newspaper in Canada; The Global Press; The Newspaper Industry Today
Special-interest newspapers concentrate on news of interest to a particular group. An ethnic community, for example, may have a newspaper that informs readers of news and events in that community. Many special-interest newspapers are printed in a language other than English. Corporations or divisions of corporations often publish their own newspapers, as do unions and trade organizations, such as those for woodworkers, airline pilots, and people in the fashion industry. Other special-interest papers feature news about a specific topic, such as rock music or sports. Special-interest papers may come out daily, weekly, monthly, or even less frequently. Daily special-interest newspapers cover daily events from the perspective of members in that group. The Wall Street Journal, for example, contains detailed financial news that appeals to investors and members of the business community. Ethnic communities in urban areas may have a daily special-interest paper that examines local, national, and international news in terms of how it affects their population. Large universities often have daily papers. Arts newspapers, such as newspapers devoted to theater or music, often come out weekly. They include critiques of art exhibits, performances, new music albums, and recently published books. They typically also publish schedules of upcoming events, such as concerts and poetry readings.
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. More from Encarta
News stories, illustrations, and features are the responsibility of the paper’s news staff. The news staff of a major daily paper usually includes reporters, editors, photographers, and artists. Most newspapers supplement the work of their news staff with content provided by news organizations called wire services.
Reporters gather information about newsworthy events and write stories that describe them. Some reporters routinely monitor particular areas of the news, such as happenings at city hall, the police department, or in court. General-assignment reporters cover a wide variety of news events. Investigative reporters search out and expose corruption in government, business, labor, education, and other sectors of society. Many reporters cover only daily events—meetings of a city council, press conferences, fires, and accidents—while others work for weeks to develop in-depth articles. A few of the world’s largest newspapers also have offices in their country’s capital that cover news about their nation’s leader, the government, and national organizations. They may station reporters in large cities around the country and foreign correspondents in important world capitals. Other reporters travel to key world events, such as the Olympic Games and regions of political unrest, where they spend extended periods reporting on events as they occur. These correspondents send stories to their home offices via facsimile or the Internet, or dictate stories over the telephone. Using these speedy methods ensures that news will appear in the hometown newspaper as soon as the events happen.
In addition to receiving reports from their own staffs, newspapers also subscribe to wire services, such as the Associated Press (AP) or Reuters (see Reuters Holdings PLC). Wire services distribute up-to-the-minute news stories and pictures to subscribing newspapers. Newspapers may also run stories and features provided by newspaper syndicates. Like wire services, newspaper syndicates offer their content to other newspapers for a fee. For example, the New York Times Company and the Washington Post Company, among others, sell their news reports and features to papers in the United States and abroad.
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