Below is a typical week in the news room. All news and feature stories are due today. Editors assign stories for next weeks paper and complete photo request forms for the photography department. Which the staff begins working on. Our Town Crier, Calendar, and Global Update segements are layed out.
More stories come in, copy editing is underway.
Sports stories are due. The number of pages in the issue is established, and then layout on the rest of the issue the begins. Editors edit all the uneditted stories, the Layout Editor does the final layout. The editorial is written and editted. This process of laying out and editing all at one time can be very time-consuming.