Most people hate Mondays
Shorthorn editors dread Tuesdays.
It's what we like to call production night — the night where all the work we've done all week to get the print edition out comes together.
Preparations begin Wednesday, and content trickles in throughout the week, but most of the work is done Monday and Tuesday.
After the daily 3:30 p.m. budget meeting, the work really starts.
Editors are yelling through the newsroom.
"Production, you have Oozeball," the news editor yells.
"Thanks! Are the photos for that to me?" a designer says to the photo area, at no one in particular.
"Is this headline OK?" a copy editor asks.
"Ummm... Bekah?!" another copy editor says.
"Maybe try incorporating this," I suggest. They delete the headline and start over.
Once pages are done being designed, they're printed for copy editors to look at again, a process knows as proofing.
Once that's done, pages go through the copy desk chief, the digital managing editor (me) and then to the editor-in-chief to be finalized and sent to the printer.
To read about this process in action, visit my Twitter or search #production916.
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