The Production of Newspapers.

I am really interested to research the ways that newspapers are created from a story, to the newsagents and then to us reading it. it does depend on how often a newspaper is issued, weekly, monthly, daily etc, but this research is based solely on daily newspapers (with the exeption of sunday) as they need to completed in the shortest time. Also i am planning for my newspaper to be daily.I did a lot of research into this and try to explain the reasons why things are done the way they are:


Production:

Workers who produce the newspapers usually work from monday to friday, so sunday and money editions largely depend on the content done in advance or content that is syndicated. Most daily papers are published in the morning - whether it is a morning, afternoon or evening paper.

Wikipedia mentions that there are four main stages of publishing a newspaper:

1. Editorial work
This is where the articles are selected for the particular newspaper and the healine is chosen. This headline is very important as it is likely to created more of an interest from a possible buyer.
2. Production/printing
This is where the papers are pysically printed either in black and white or colour, depending on the paper. If the newspaper offers stories online, web designers and web masters are employed to create them to look aestheically pleasing to the audience.
3. Circulation - selling the paper
This is the department of newspapers where retailers of the newspaper are contacted and where subscriptions of the paper are sold. This department also supervises distribution of the printed newspapers through the mail, by newspaper carriers, at retailers, and vending machines. Free newspapers do not sell subscriptions but they still have a circulation department responsible of distributing the newspapers.
4. Advertising
This department sell spaces of the newspaper to clients so they can advertise their buisness, they can also help their clients to design and plan their advertising campaigns. There would be no adverts in an advertising-free newspaper, so the paper is run by the profit made from sales alone. Free newspapers primarily are funded by adverts as people are more likely to pick up a free newspaper.
These four stages can be described in a variety of different names.

The editorial work is very complicated and there are a lot of employers involved. I have done a post and a powerpoint about people who work in the production of newspapers and the descriptions of their job.
Here is a website that talks about the machines used to produce newspapers. I just thought it was helpful because it shows the amount of stages that one newspaper goes through when being made:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/newspaper4.htm