Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-12
= HOW A BIG NEWS STORY is COVERED. = /


every few minutes on the desks OF the
managing and night editors. The ten
sion ugrr~cs
FROM EImlIa Is coming over the wire
q slurF of a MOB attack on q vice pres
dental candidate At least two coli
hnds nusr e devoted to a meeting In
brooklyn at winch one Of the preslden-
tlM candidates has Just spoken The
cable editor Is demanding a column and
a hllf for the story OF London's rlotpua
greeting NJ her returned troops. The
aDScondlngl note teller who stole $780,
600 from national bank has been cap-
tured In Boston and brought 10 New
lork az ii o'clock that evening The
reporter who is covering this assign
ment telephones to the night city edi-
tor THAI the chief Of the detective bd-
tetu is swing out a long statement
anout the case and another column and
q htll must DE saved for II. II Is Mon
day night and some time after 10
O'Clock VIII come another column and
a half about the new plays. There are
late political stories OF importance.
some one Of the telephones Is in con-
slant use, aud at times all Of them, re-
ceiNlng reports " news events from all
parts Of the chy. The managing edi-
tor sends around the word that AL
COPY must be- cut TO the bone" At
midnight the nignt editor, with his
hands fun Of proofs, goes up to the
composing rooms TO make up the ed
ilOrial page, As soon as It's type has
been locked In the form matr.X is
pounded on 1t and then sent down TO
the stereOtypers. who have already
started their fires In the furnaces be-
low. As many plates are cast from
this matrlX as the re are presses 10 sup
DIV The night editor sends down word
mat the composing room Is damned
up with more copy than he can p0ssi-
bly, squeeze into tie paper, More copy
rs sent up stairs, however ana the
night editor must find a place for II,
because il IL important As he pores
over the galleys I'd type fresh proofs
are brought to him, II IS now | o'clock.
He must decide qulcfly what stories he
Is going 10 use ana where TO place them
in he paper The night city editor and
his assistants are sending up copy page
by page as they edit II. The cable and
telegraph editors are also racing
against time and - Is the sporting
editor With q telephone receiver at
lllo Ndl a ANIF INdhtl NIAltN u lhliilfu
words sent In by police station man
az 1870 a. M about an accident mp town.
A waiting corr boy snatches It as soon
as the last word Is written and sends
il up stairs. The head or caption fol-
lows a minute later The night editor
directs the composing rooms makeup
man where 10 place in the i0uns the
galleys OF type struggling 10 admiS-
a h. ~ %. l|
columns, 1880 words each. nave the
right OF way. Thea are "a spread clear
across the first and second pads and
overflow ON the third, They tal the
story Of the Tauant FIRE Nearly half
OF these columns have been wrtta by
three men and a score have CuntribL ted
the re3t The copy editors have iOinad
! this mosaic so that the render cannOt
! tell where one mans work ends and
/ another's begins. Page after page Ia
quickly made up and srero0typed. The
form Of the third page. has been held
open for the latest news Al o'clock
this form Is locked. A matriX is hast
rs made from II. Down In the base
ment the big presses are waiting SILENT
ly. each for its plate o the third page.
The first plate cast comes down In the
rush. u rs set in the press and the big
machine goes rapidly 10 work printing
the completed papers and tossing them
out ms rapidly as a pressman can pick
them up. Plate after plate OF the third
page comes down, and aich one in turn
is the signal for another press 10 start.
The whole building quNers with the
rumble Of the heavy Tachine and a
new paper Is born More than 5000
men In an parts Of the world have con-
uihuted to the making Of n The man
aging editor and the nigfs editor eX-
| anime the first copies which are
( brought 10 them at twenty minutes af-
I ter 9, as physician examines new
! born child Should glarlng mistakes be
/ detected they must stop the presses and
| make over "a form or two 70 correct
| them. Tho horde Of impatient news
I dealers waiting outside may not have
/ the paper for an hour or more, lest IL
should 0nl ITS way into other news
] papcr Offices where ihs exclusive news
would be- quickly lifted" for a seco<d
edition. When New York aWakes. the
newspaper. with as complete a days
record OF the worlds doing as money,
energy and skill can make, is ready
for Il.