Then, there's office paper. Reporters take lots of notes. Some take their notes on the computer screen when they do interviews over the phone. But most of the time, when they're out talking to people for stories, reporters use spiral notebooks. And sometimes, when reporters take notes on their computers, they print out the notes before writing their stories.
Editors use a lot of paper, too.
There's a running newsroom joke about Editor James A. Haught printing out a dozen copies of every assignment he makes. Reporters and editors get a lot of junk mail, too. The newsroom fax machine churns out press releases and mung contest entries practically 24 hours a day. Then there's the huge amount of government reports, books and various studies reporters use to produce stories. The documents used in this series on the timber industry, for example, fill a filing cabinet shelf and two boxes.