Herald early the next day. The Herald had the story researched and written and the presses running with the breaking story about an hour and a half later. It would have required calling in a paste-up crew and waiting for the front page to be stripped, designed again and photographed so it could be developed into a negative to burn a new plate for the presses. The fewer steps also have led to better reproduction quality, Perdue said. Last month, the Herald took another step into the technological future at a Prosser football game in Moses Lake.
Photographers transfer the images from a computer disk in their cameras to a computer.
In the Moses Lake case, the process was done remotely. The photographer downloaded the photo into a portable computer while sitting on the sidelines of the game, then transmitted the photo over a phone line back to the Herald. In the past, photographers had to leave before the game was over to drive back to the Herald, develop the film, make prints and meet their deadline. And because of that process, it would not have been possible to get a photo from a late game in Moses Lake into the next morning's paper. Before, we had to listen to it on the radio back here in the office, wishing we were there and shooting it.