Have you ever wonder what goes on inside of a newspaper publishing company? There are several important jobs on a newspaper staff:
--The publisher organizes the editorial, printing and distribution of the newspaper.
There are many stages involved in making a newspaper. The first stage is called plate-making. A processing scanner sends digitized information to a laser scanner. It decodes all of the information and imposes it as a positive image onto a negative film. The film is placed on a computerized light box and an aluminum plate is placed on top of it. It gets exposed to ultra-violet light and is developed. The plate now carries the images of the pages. It is bent at the ends in a machine to make it fit onto the press, and is then set in a place on the plate cylinders. A big roll of newspaper paper is delivered and transferred to a reel stand. Automatic cutters chop the old roll and the reel drops back for reloading. When the paper reaches the printing presses it travels over the inking rollers and through the blanket cylinders, which carry the image and print it out onto the paper. The paper travels on to the folder. This machine chops them into separate sheets, folds them together and the newspapers are done. The conveyer-belt carries the finished product to the mailrooms where a machine stacks them into piles of twenty-four. Now they are done and are ready for delivery (Peterson 8).