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University Daily Kansan Thursday, October 7, 1954
Time, Toil - Necessities for Your Paper
While John Q. Public sleeps, the modern newspaper is being assembled for him to read over his morning coffee.
In this, National Newspaper week, the University Daily Kansan will show its readers how it is being put together for public consumption, from the start, the interview by a reporter, to the finished product.
In this sequence of pictures, Bob Lyle, college sophomore, a reporter for the Kansan, is shown as he first interviews the subject, writes the story, confers with the editors several times, and then sees his labor in printed form—a typical day on the Kansan.
There is more to publishing even a University newspaper than is shown here, however. Lyle did not simply begin his reporting by interviewing a person; instead many months of sometimes tedious preparation passed even before he sat at a typewriter in the newsroom to compose his story.
And he will have to put in even more months, even years, before he will be what is termed in common language, an "ace" reporter. Behind every newspaper worthy of its name is this same preparation
The newspaper man, along with such other public servants as the police and firemen, works when others play—Sundays, holidays nights—to bring the news to YOU.
—Kansan Picture Story by Larry Tretbar
CONFERENCE—Lyle checks with the managing editor of the day, Dana Leibengood (left), and Stan Hamilton, executive editor, on a detail in his story.
THE STORY IS EDITED—Hamilton and Lyle check the story for errors in style and discuss the headline needed. Working at the copy desk are (clockwise from Lyle) Nancy Neville, LaVerle Yates, Janis Johanson, Amy DYong, and Leibengood.
GETTING THE STORY—Most Kansan stories begin with an interview such as this one, with Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism. Bob Lyle, college sophomore, began a typical day on the paper
Writing—Lyle writes the story
CHECKING A POINT—Leibengood and Hamilton confer with Roland L. Guilkey, who makes up the type set pages. From here the pages will go to the press.
THE FINISHED PRODUCT—Lyle sees his story in print as it rolls off of the press, seen in the back- ground being operated by several student employees.
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