Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
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pnnted. There are no more eopyboys and paste pots in the newspaper offices of the 1980s — now the news is written on computer terminals and transmitted over telephone lines from Washington to Warrenton.
On Wednesday morning, Editor Hatter and GM Burke travel to Warrenton to supervise the makeup of the paper. It is there that the news becomes the familiar newspaper which arrives Thursday morning.
The dummies which contained only ads Tuesday afternoon have been filled with the news stories which will round out the pages. And, with the help of the pasteup staff, the work of making up the pages will begin.
But only after the compostion staff has checked through file to make sure that the correct commands are in place to create headlines, bylines, and body copy. And proofreaders will also read each story to make sure that the style is consistent and the copy is free of typographical errors — the dreaded “typo” which often means a “Correction” run in the next week’s edition.
Meanwhile, upstairs, the graphic artists in the advertising department are busy transforming each client’s advertising order into a combination of words and art which will convey the business’s message to the public.
Once the news and advertising copy is pasted onto the dummies, with red masks marking the place of each photo, the flats are delivered to the production department. There, each page is photographed by a large camera, transforming it into a photographic negative.
After the photographic negatives are added in a process known as “stripping, ” the full-page negative is
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