New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-05-20
THE EDITOR.


II Popular View Of Newspaper Mems Work
and Duties Categoricaliy Expressed.
I'll Does the editor write everything in
the paper?
Oh, yes He writes the love story
on the outside in the morning, then
live or six editorials and double as
many paragraphs, then the theater
notices and advertising pu.1s. In the
afternoon he helps the compositors: or
-3goes down stairs and works the press,
or assists the boys to fold the papers.
Should newspaper man always be
a printer?
Oh, yes; always. You must learn
to set type before you can write at all.
Shakespeare, Byron, Lord Bacon, Ten
Fnyson and all the rest were printers.
You can not expect to be good COM
i position unless you are a printer.
I What does the managing editor do?
& He keeps the pens and inkstands
.clean and manages to mark a great
deal of writing with blue pencil.
What he marks goes into the-paper
-baske-, and is often axiously looked
for several weeks after by the CORE
j 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. an'I 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
readere
I Oh, he is simply hired to prove the
truth of whatever the editor writes.
lat L. Il
do?
Oh, he simply exchanges news with
other papers.
And what does the night editor do?
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 t. 60 abroad to
be a good foreign correspondent?
Oh, no. You can be just as bad a
J foreign correspondent at nome Is any
where else. u ~
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
:guaye. 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 t'sprng," 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
1T all down on three or four reams of
paper. !!
Can anybody write for a newspaper?
n, tbo1,
There is nothing to stop anybody from
writing for a newspaper.
And get paid for itP
Oh, yes There is nothing to stop
anybody from being paid for writing
q newspaper.
hat is the best subject to write
a it for a newspaper?
M ca, anything which happens to inter-
est you, Ii it interests you it is a sure
sign it will interest every body else.
How does an editor like to have an
article commence?
Commonly in this way: "Having a
few moments to spare, have dashed
Of these few lines in the hopes that
what have ground out may interest
your readers. have not said on this
subject all could or all l can, but il
it should prove interesting as [ hope
it will, trust [shall be able to say
more on this and other topics, ETC.,
etc" The longer you can keep on
in this strain the more will the editor
be delighted with your article.
In what style Goes he like to have it
written? g2 ~
He likes to have it written in very
fine, obscure hand, with lots of inter-
ineations and letters sprawled across
each other, and, if possible, on both
side Of the paper, aud then you should
call for q proof OF your article, and
when you get it conclude to strike out
every third sentence and put another
in its place, and when you get ire
wise" you might reWrite the entire ar
ticle over again. This will make the
entire Office happy and cheerful.
What will the editor do first after
looking over such an article?
He will order new club-for YOU
when you call.
Where do you generally put the long
articles?
In the waste basket.
Do you pay for them?
No, but the old junk man does at
the rate of cent per pound. There
is a good opening to make some money
writing long articles providing you
live long enough.
Should one learn shorthand to make
a good reporter?
Oh, yes. BY all means. Then YOU
will be sure not to lose an item if you
report a fire. Or if you 60 to tenn
perance meeting you won't lose a
word the speakers say. Editors are
very particular that every word of
speaker particularly temperance
:speakers) should 90 into the paper.
The reporter who brings in the long
est reports has his salary raised every
week, and an order for new suit of
clothes once month.
What does the financial editor do?
Generally he talks most of what he
has least on hand-cash, and after
fa1kinu a column Of GRAND cacl, oatc