The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
THE EDITOR
A Popular View of Newspaper Mems Work
and Duties Categorically Expressed.

Y, the paper.
o Oh, yes. He writes the love stor
10 on the outside in the morning, the
g five or six editorials and double g
l. masy paragraphs, then the theate
le notices and advertising puffs. In tn
% afternoon he helps the compositors: @
e goes down stairs and works the press
It or assists the boys to fold the papers
Should a newspaper man always b
n printer?
e Oh, yes; always. You must lear
e to set type before you can write at all
t Shakespeare, Byron, Lord Bacon, Ten
e nyson and all the rest were printers
!, You can not expect to be a good com
e position unless you are printer.
g What does the managing editor do
He keeps the pens and inkstand'
, clean and manages to mark great
deal of writing with blue pencil
} What he marks goes into the-papel
basket, and is often axiously looked
, for several weeks after by the CORE
spondent. He is the man who loves
TO talk with you when you have an
hour or two to spare and can talk to
him. and takes it very hard if you
don't stay at least half an hour after
you have finished your business with
him-to say it all over again.
What is the business of the proof
readers
Oh, he is simply hired to prove the
truth of whatever the editor writes.
And what does the exchange reader
dop
Oh, he simply exchanges news with
other papers.
And what does the night editor dop
Oh, he simply watches the compos-
itors at night to see that they do not
shirk their work or steal any type.
Is it really necessary to go abroad to
be good foreign correspondent?
Oh, no. You can be just as bad a
foreign correspondent at home as any
where else.
What kind of writer's do editors pre-
fer?
Oh, people who have great COM
mand of language, or rather those
who are greatly commanded by Ian
guage, and who can say the same thing
three or four times over in the same
sentence; also young ladies three
months out of the high school with
poetry on 'spring," if spring is in
season. Also men with but one idea
in their heads who have been study
ing it all their lives, and who have got
it all down on three or four reams of
paper.
Can anybody write for newspaper?
Oh, yes; they can if they want to
There is nothing to stop nybody from
writing for a newspaper.
And get paid for itP
Oh, yes. There is nothing to stop
from being paid for writing
for Il newspaper. !
What is the best subject to write
about for a newspaper?
Oh, anything which happens to inter- !
'st you. If it interests you it is sure
ign it will interest everybody else.
How does an editor like to have an
rticle commenced
Commonly in this way: "Having a :
ew moments to spare, l have dashed
If these few lines in the hopes that ?
What l have ground out may interest
our readers. | have not said on this
ubject all could or all l can, but il =
should prove interesting as l hope Il
! will, trust shall be able to say v
lore on this and other topics, ETC., I
to-" The longer you can keep on q
l this strain the more will the editor "
e delighted with your article. =
In what style does he like to have it II
'ritten?
He likes to have it written in very T. T.
ne, obscure hand, with lots of inter- II
neations and letters sprawleG across
ach other, and, if possible, on both v,
de OF the paper, aud then you should o.
Ill for proof of your article, and ~
hen you get it conclude to strike out !:
very third sentence and put another -
its place, and when you get a IRE +
Sc" you might rewrite the entire ar -. ~
Gle over again. This will make the ~. ~
tire Office happy and cheerful. ~ ~
What will the editor do first after 81
oking over such an article?
He will order new club-for you IL
hen you call. ~
Where do you generally put the long 90 .,
ticles? Sd
In the waste basket. oe
Do you pay for them? on
No. but the old junk man does at a.. an
e rate of a cent per pound There "a -
a good opening to make some money al
'lting long articles providing you al
-e long enough. t Su
Should one learn shorthand to make ~ ~
good reporter? On On.
Oh, yes. By all means. Then YOU Vi,
Ii be sure not to lose an item if you
port fire. Or if you go to tenn az no
rance meeting you won't lose iIA
'rd the speakers say. Editors are va ,ar
ry particular that every word of W, w.
eaker particularly temperance NJ NJ.
eakers) should 90 into the paper. , WI
q reporter who brings in the long w., wn
reports has his salary raised every -; IN
ek, and an order for a new suit of III
thes once month.
What does the financial editor do?
Generally he talks most of what he
J least on hand-cash, and after gal
king column of grand cash, eats lou
D cent lunch and wonders where his ina
" spring overcoat is to come from. cel
What is the business of the scienti- PAL
editorp act
lie smokes the glasses that we OBJ cCeI
We eclipses through, and at times Tal
places takes observations through III