A last-minute change to a page, just before the old Goss Urbanite press rumbled into action, could be communicated from one department to all others in a matter of seconds, even in person. Now the images that will turn into newspaper pages are created at 14 N. Mission St., and transmitted by microwave to the new press at 3 S. 9th St., almost two miles away. Currently, if there's a problem you can just run downstairs. We're so close now, we sort of make decisions by osmosis. Three departments are intimately involved in the last-minute work that goes into the pages of The Wenatchee World.
News writes the stories, takes photos and edits and designs the final product.
Prepress designs and composes the advertising content. The press department puts the images on paper. If something happens at the last minute, the other two departments have to know because it affects them. It's a three-way system. In the weeks and months leading up to the switchover to the new press, communications was a prime topic of conversation.