Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... IV THE METROPOLITAN DAILY AT one extreme in the newspaper business is the small country weekly where one man, with possibly a little help from the members of his immediate family, constitutes the entire staff; at the other extreme is the large metropolitan daily, where, in connection with its several editions, employment is given to something like two thousand persons. The plant of the country weekly often consists of two rooms, commonly spoken of as the front and the back office; in the former the editor has his desk, at which he both does his writing and transacts such business as is brought to the paper; in the latter he does his mechanical work of printing and producing the newspaper and of running off job-work. Some such distinction is drawn on the largest metropolitan paper, where the divisions are spoken of as the up-stairs and down-stairs office. The "down-stairs" includes the advertising and business department and the "upstairs" the editorial and news. In the basement of the building are usually found the presses. Here, also, are the addressing-machines of the circulation department. Above the editorial-rooms may be a floor for the accommodation of the composing-room with its typesetting-machines, etc. Space somewhere is set aside for the Sunday department, which manufactures the special supplement added to the news section on that day. Quarters under the roof may shelter the morgue, which contains those newspaper clippings, properly indexed and filed, which may be needed later by the editorial or reportorial staff. The man in charge of this department is called the "bone-yard" editor, because he supplies most of the material for obituary items. At the head of the editorial department comes the editor-in-chief, who is sometimes...
