The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-06-06
NEwsPAPER nEAKERs.
What Constitutes a First GIass Corps al
what Il Costs.

What Constitutes a First CIass Corps and
What IL Costs.
From an Interview with A. Dana Of the N Y. SUM-
"A first-rate newspaper in New York
will require about ten editorial writers,
whose daily duty it is to furnish leading
articles and editorial paragraphs. Many
of these writers have their special
duties, but there must always be five or
six men who are able to turn their
hands to subjects of any description as
they happen to come up. A competent
writer OF lpaders will be paid from 800
to $3.50 per week; and no man fit to
supervise them and perform the func-
tiOn of editor-ln-chief can be had for
less than from $3.50 to $500 perlweek.
The reporters are OF two classes; first,
those of the regular staff, who are paid
by the week at rates varying from $40
to $50. These perform not only the
routine duties OF reporting, but are al
ways prepared to be sent off upon special
service, In which case their railroad
fares, carriage hire, hotel bills and other
expenses are paid by the office.
''Then there are number of report
ers attached to each paper who are paid
according to the work they perform,
without having any prescribed func-
tiOns and who must hold themselves in
readiness to do whatever may be neces-
saFy. Some of these gentlemen are men
OF talent and learning, and in time will
make their way into the front rank as
writers and editors. know men who,
without having reg ular salaries, average
from $50 to $40 week. OF these two
classes OF reporters, taken together, a
first rate paper must employ about fifty.
Next there are the correspondents, both
at home and abroad, and these are like
W tEUn a fhnGn NJh IN
are employed upon regular salaries and
those who are paid as their cOntribu-
tiOnS are printed. In Washington, for
instance, each newspaper has need both
OF regular correspondents for reporters,
and of occasional contributors, and the
different papers differ as to the respec-
tive numbers of those two classes. In
Albany each New York paper must have
it's regular staff devoted to its SERVICE
while in the other capitals OF such
States as New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Massachusetts, the papers are
served by occasional correspondents,
since the news OF these more distant
places is, for the most part, not import
ant enough in New York to be constant
ly reported there. la Europe, also, every
leading paper has its regular staff of
correspondents in the chief cities.
There must especially be correspond
ent in London and one in Paris who
report constantly either by post or by
cable.
I'm the Sunday edition of most Of the
prominent papers of New York city there
is always cable dispatch summing up
the news of the week and reporting in
teresting political, social, artistic, or
literary events on which the reporters OF
the Associated Press, whose kilograms
are Forwarded every day, do not Ordi-
narily dwell. Thus the expense of the
sort Of papers we are considering vary
for the most part, mainly according as
theylprint large or small editions, the
chief difference being in their consump-
tiOn of white paper, OF this the Herald
uses more than any otherl journal. On
Sunday especially its advertising sheets
are many and on that day 1t will some
times print 100 eOlums of advertise
ments alone, 40 that the amount of white
paper it uses isenOrmOua.
SBut apart from this item, the eX-
.penses of one of these papers for the
editorial department, including writers,
reporters and correspondents, will be
from $1,000 to 5000 per week, and its
ordinary telegraph bills, including the
cost of special cables from Europe, will
average perhaps from 800 to $1,000
week; its composition bills will vary
from 81, 900 to $4,000; its publication de-
partment win cost from $1,000 to $1,000;
its stereOtyping will be perhaps $500,
and its miscellaneous expenses from
$1,000 to $1,000, making a total of from
$1,000 to $120O0a week. OF course these
figuPes will be little less in dull times
when there is little telegraphing and no
occasion for special expenditures, than
when there is a great public excitement,
such as Presidential canvass or
great public catastrophe. when it is
necessary to send many men out and
spend a great deal of money in obtaining
news; but the general average will be
about what L have stated"