How to set up a newspaper

Seloth

I was just wondering must be done to set up a news paper.

As in how do you get about to print it and how everything must work really.

Hobart

Firstly you need money. A lot of money. Secondly, staff, and not just reporters, you have a number of distinct departments in most newspapers:

1) Journalists (sometimes called the news-room)
2) Production Staff (People who electronically put the paper together)
3) Advertising Staff (people who sell, design adverts)
4) Accountancy staff (Credit Control, Accounts Invoicable and Payable)
5) Admin Staff (The unsung heroes of any newspaper, anything from clerical to copy taking to receptionists)
6) IT Staff (Does what it says on the tim)

There are many many sub departments you can have off these main ones, such as photography, sub-editorial etc... but those are the main ones. Depending on the newspaper, it will dictate the number of staff in any one department.

Once you newspaper is designed and ready for print, you must then look at getting it onto newsprint. The simple way of doing that is to buy some time from a press.

Newspapers like the Indo, Times, Examiner etc... have press rooms all over the country. The press is rarely busy with their own products 24/7 so they sell time on their press.

The pagination/size etc of your publication. will dictate the time it takes to print it, other factors such as insertions etc will also have a bearing on the price.

monument

There are other ways...

...four different geographical editions of the (Community) Telegraph have just one journalist; they do it all from reporting, taking photographs, sub pages, and publish the paper online too.
http://www.blurredkeys.com/2007/07/belfast-newspap.html

Seloth

What I would like to do is something of a smaller scale.In the town that I live by,there is a person who runs a local paper/magazine.They dont use paper exactly either,like it but harder,I'm not sure what it is called.As wel las this I dont know of any programmes use for setting up such things.Would it be Microsoft office?

alleepally

Quark Xpress or Adobe InDesign are the 2 main pieces of software in use for serious page layout. You could get by using Microsoft Publisher but you would need to talk to a printer to know if it will output files in print ready format for them.

When you say someone locally produces a local paper/magazine on something like paper, what you are trying to describe is the type of paper stock used. I'd suggest if you are really serious in getting something off the ground, go visit a local printer and tell them what you want to do and let them show you the options and prices... They will provide you all the information you need and they can show you what paper types they have and so on....