Our sports and lifestyles desks edit and paginate their own work. Our designers have little time to edit copy, so the bulk of the editing is done by 2-3 people per night.
Most editors read the story once, write the headline and pass it on.
We have roughly five people per night. Page 1 designer, Metro section designer, wire editor, rimmer, slotter. The wire editor, rimmer and slotter do almost all of the editing. We have been known to hire people with no journalism experience also. Once we are told which stories go on which pages and which stories are leads, we are allowed to decide on the design ourselves.