Now it’s much simpler where we have printers which can mass produce the news papers. The process in which a newspaper or magazine follows in order to become complete is as follows:
Step 1: News/Story gathering
The production starts with reporters going out to find and gather stories, this is done by covering events or creating and gathering information for a follow up story. Once the reporter gets their stories together, the editor of that news paper or magazine will receive each one via email. This is done daily. In addition to this, each reporter and journalist has their own particular desk in the news room. For example, some one at the political desk would be gathering info and writing up a story based around political views, or say a sports desk, the person working there would be writing stories based on sports.
Once stories have been gathered the sub editors are then put into gear with the responsibility of editing the copies which have been submitted by the reporter. A red pen or red font is used to show what edits that’s have made, the Chief sub editor uses a blue pen/font to identify what edits they have made and the lead editor of the whole product uses green.
Step 2: Pre Press
The pre press process of a newspaper or magazine comes after all of the story gathering has been complete. Because of the advancement of technology over time, its important publishing industries keep up to date with the latest technological trends which is why a lot of the also have a website which produces work alongside a physical printed copy. An advantage of having a website which also delivers news is because more stories can be added on in real-time and existing stories can be updated on the go.
In the pre press stage, different pages of the site are laid out and designed, this is the planning before putting content on the pages and advertisements that will be featured will also forwarded by the marketing team where places or specific pages will be used for their advertisement. Once all of the pages have been laid out, a dummy sheet is created to give a look at what the final product would be. In this stage, all of the text, pictures, cutline, graphics and graphical illustrations as well as colour is put together and the dummy sheets are transformed into an approved digital form by the editorial department.
Step 3: Press
Press can be broken into two different parts, the Lithographic stage and the Impression stage. Newspapers which are more sophisticated use a certain technology called CTP. CTP means Computer to Plate whilst some use CTM (Computer to Machine). So what are CTP and CTM?
Lithographic Stage –
The lithographic stage is where all of the content and stories along side advertisements are taken to the lithographic section. This is where everything is registered on a plate. The plate itself is an aluminium-like iron sheet in the size of the newspaper (A3) and is then used to run the printing of the newspaper on the printing machine. A CTP machine registers the already designed information at the pre press on the plate. The plate is fixed on the machine to run impression.
Impression Stage –
The impression stage is where the final product comes out. Thousands of copies are printed and to be given all over newspaper’s covered areas. The plates are hung on the printing machine where numerous copies are printed out to be circulated and sold to readers.
An important thing to note is that the newspapers are designed and get produced a day before the publishing day, this covers both the current pages and advanced pages.
Step 4: Post Press
Post Press is the circulation of all the printed copies which are delivered all across the nation and to different centers in which distribute it all over the country.
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