Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-07-30
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meas per week; and a certain number of-men
aud boys tv attend 10 the printing machiur, and
10 take off the papers as they fall from the cy.
finders; publisher and sub publsher; two c.
more clei ks in The Office, 10 receive advertise
menis aud keep the accounts; porter, num-
Der # errand boys, SC,
The salary OF All editor, upon a respectable
morning paper,is 6ooL to loooi per annum;
and sub-editor receives from 1901 10 COOL
per annum. We have heard that the editor OF
one of The leading morning papers has ioool'
per annum; and that at leas: another loook per
annum is paid TO gentlemen not regularly on
the establishment, for political articles thus
providing variety Of mater. Besides the re-
gular reporters of new, paper, there are seve-
raj occ asional, or, as they are called, penny
a-linr' repor ers; from the Circumstance OF
their furnishing articles of intelligence at
fixed price per line, Wig: I'd. or lid. They are
nor at &c he'd to any par ocular newspaper. The
aggr, gate charge for copy furnished by these
persons, forms considerable item IN the week
ly expenditure of a newspaper. The salaries
PAID by.a first rate morning paper, weekly, TO
its edi ors, reporters, and Others on he esab-
llshmeni, do moi amount 10 / SIS than 1907 per
week, and il 10 This be added IA. expenditure
tor occasional reporting-for assistance TO the
composi;ors foreign newspapers, and prI-
vaie correspondence, and various items which
il is unnecessary 10 enumrrate, we have a
weekly expense ofnearly 25ol.
The duties OF sub-editor on a morning pa
per commence about the middle Of the day: al
this time he arrang,s fer the printer the origi-
einal communications which have bsen laid
before his superior, and which have obtained
his appreciation, aud revises any report which
4 hos, h.A fnp IN
He then makes his selections from the provin-
cial papers which are sent 10 the Office; and
when the evening newspapers are published,
extracts from them also, and arranges his tx
tracts for publication-occaslonally writing an
original paragraph on some subject OF interest
From that time, until the paper is sent 'opress,
which may he at one, two, or four O'Clock in
thr ming, he is occupied in overlooking The
different reports and communications as they
arrive, and in selecting from them such as he
thinks worthy Of Insertions The editors duty
begins, strictly speaking, with The publication
Of the evening papers. He has to read their
leading articles, and 10 refute support their
arguments He remains al his post until a
late hour, prepared to write comments on the
foreign papers, as they arrive, duty in which
he is generally assisted by his sub-edilor,) and
to direct, in leading article, attention TO any
topic OF interest before The public. During he
sitting Of Parliament ne iscompeled Frequently
20 remain al the offire until Two or lhrte
o'clock in the morning; and such IS the energy
with which the public press in the metropolis
is directed, that II is not rare {" see leading
article Of nearly a column, written at two
"'ri-.nL :" the morning, on some subject which
had been discus Led an hour or two previously
in the House Of Commons.
TIE most extraordinary part Of paper,
the re porting. remains to be noticed. II has
beer stated that the regular reporting es abish
menl varies in number from zen 10 fourteen-
most OF the persons So engaged are gentlemen
Of education; and frequently law students, WAC
make this profession an easy mode of quality
ing themselves for one of more fame, and some
times Of more profit t Daring The Parliament,
the s,,ings Of which commence at four o'clock
in The afternoon, the reporters OF the leading
papers attend by turns, one succeeding the
other, according to previous arrangement, each
rems'ning in the House for half or three quar-
,rrs Of an hour; and the reporters upon minor
papers much longer If he debate is not hea-
Wy, the reporter in the House Of Commons,
when relieved, enters a small room al the end
OF the LOBBY, which has been appropriated ex-
cluslyely 10 reporters, and there arranges his
as, except in particular Cases, shor hand re
porting, from the impo,sibiIily o! finding room
in newspaper for all ha' member says, are
rather injurious than usrfui,) Of the speeches
delivered during his turn. He then proceeds
al once 10 the Office of the newspaper on which
he is engaged, and the editors attention di
rected by him to any thing of commanding in
terest that has transpired. His slips, as they
are written, are given by The printer o the com.
positors, whose number, during the sitting Of
is generally increased; and as one
reporter follows another, il is not unusual for
debate, which has terminated only al twelve
o'clock at night, to be set mp in type and ready
for printing by Two O'Clock in the morning.
On the nights Of prolonged debate, when
the houses sit late, some Of the reporters may
he compelled 10 go back and take what is call,
ed double turn. This. however, on newspa.
pers which have full corps Of reporters, does
not often happen; and on ordinary occasions,
the fail one IN the renoriers 10 NOT evco e;va l