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Newspaper Publishing Process

The publishing process consist of a reporter acquiring a story, writing it, checking it and then submitting the piece. Once the reporter's job is complete, the piece is looked over by the managing editor, who would decide the importance of the piece and where it should be placed within the newspaper. After all of the pieces have gone through the organization process, they are then placed on the editor's desk to be reviewed for errors. In order to be reviewed, several different editor's would be given certain pieces to look over given their section of the newspaper that they were assigned. Once each section was complete with its pieces, the illustration and layout process would begin. During this process, the editors would design the layout for each section, including the art and photographs and the headlines for each stories, and then print off a proof of their section, which they would then exchange with other editors to be copy edited. The copy editing process would be completed with red pen and handwritten. The copy editing would not be complete until each editor read every section and reviewed it for errors. Following the completion of this process, sections would be returned to editors, errors would be corrected, and a second proof would be printed out. The second proof would be given to the head editor for a quick glance for approval before being submitted.

The newspaper process is very similar to Plotnik's process of publication.