The current legislation allows anyone to become a founder of the newspaper. It is enough just to pay the state fee and go through a number of not particularly complicated bureaucratic formalities. But publishing it will be somewhat more difficult, but many can afford it.
It is necessary
- - the concept of the publication;
- - certificate of state registration of mass media;
- - the status of a legal entity or individual entrepreneur;
- - staff of creative and technical workers;
- - freelance writers;
- - room for the editorial office;
- - technical equipment (computers, office equipment, etc.);
- - printing services.
Instructions
Step 1
Before releasing the first issue of a newspaper, you must imagine how often it will be published, if weekly or less often - on what days, and its volume, that is, the number of pages (however, in the editorial offices, the latter are called stripes).
By answering these questions for yourself, you can work out a schedule for working on the number. It will not be superfluous to discuss with the printing house whether it will be able to accept the issues at the time you need and issue the finished circulation by the required time.
Step 2
When preparing the schedule for work on the issue, please note that some of the publications may be prepared in advance. Such texts should be placed on the page in the first place, the most operational of the series "urgently to the issue" (news, reports from the scene, etc. - something without which the newspaper has no right to be called this word) - up to the fact that immediately before sending to the printing house.
Be prepared for possible adjustments to the schedule of work on a specific issue, caused by the information picture of the period to which it is devoted (a specific day, week, etc., depending on the frequency of publication).
Step 3
The first step in releasing a specific issue should always be planning it. The main source of topics for publications are proposals from correspondents (in everyday life - applications). If the editorial office has a large staff that allows splitting into departments, the first filtering occurs at the level of the department editor. He must evaluate each application, make his own suggestions, redistribute the load among the correspondents, defining the priority topics.
The same work, but at the level of the entire editorial office, is done by the editor-in-chief or his deputy. This is usually done at a general editorial meeting. Most often it is held the day after the next issue is released, and both the one that came out and the future one are discussed on it.
Step 4
The next stage is preparation of publications. Here, the responsibility of the department editor is to ensure that the secretariat (this is the name of the department in charge of the technical side of work on the issue) of texts of proper quality and in accordance with the schedule of work on the issue.
The correspondent gives the editor the finished text, he reads it, makes his own edits, if necessary, clarifies the points of doubt with the author or returns them for revision with his comments. And so on until complete readiness.
Then the text is sent to the secretariat, from where it is sent to the proofreader.
Step 5
The text read (in everyday life - "read") by the proofreader is sent for typesetting (or, as they usually say in editorial offices, “for typesetting”). Ideally, at this stage, an illustration should already be ready for it.
The author of the publication and the editor are obliged to think about how to illustrate each publication at the stage of preparing the application. Depending on the situation, you can order pictures for press photographers, instruct the bild-editor to select a picture or photo from photo banks or agencies and other sources, or give the task to prepare a drawing for an artist. In some cases, the latter may need to read the finished text.
Step 6
The typesetting strips are usually proofread by a proofreader and an editor several times. In many editorial offices, a duty editor is appointed (all creative employees or only deputy editor-in-chief and editors of the departments according to the schedule). The editor of each department also practices proofreading of all publications that have passed through it. It is advisable to read off your own texts and authors, if they are not on assignment, sick leave, on vacation or on a business trip.
Step 7
The finished pages are gradually submitted to the editor-in-chief for approval. At this stage, he must, if necessary, make his own adjustments, including cardinal ones. Cases are not so rare when, as a result, you have to replace some texts with others, make urgent changes to the typeset text, re-type the page.
Step 8
After making all the edits, the finished pages are viewed by all responsible employees: department editors, a representative of the advertising service (whether all paid advertising goes to the room and whether the advertiser's wishes for its placement have been taken into account, etc.), the duty editor, if any, the chief editor, etc. Reconciliation on the subject, whether all edits have been made, at this stage can be done and proofreading.
If anyone has any comments, the work is carried out until they are eliminated.
When all the corrections have been taken into account, the issue can be sent to the printing house.
