Jan. 16, 1953 Daily Kansas Picture Supplement Page 2
Putting Out the Kansan
News editor Dean Evans explains details of an assignment to reporter Jerry Knudson. The news editor makes out a list of assignments each day for reporters and reporters read and check them off in the tip sheet book, which Evans is shown holding.
Keporter Jim Baird checks his box for last minute assignments or additional information for a story or information coming in from a news source by phone.
Reporter Shirley Piatt is shown interviewing Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, on a story regarding progress on construction on the campus.
On the NEWS SIDE
Work on the news side of the Daily Kansan progresses in a manner very similar to most small daily newspapers except for the selection of a new staff every eight weeks.
Work for an issue of the Kansan actually starts the afternoon before when the news editor assigns stories to reporters (students enrolled in Reporting II class). Each reporter is assigned a "beat," consisting of news sources such as the speech and drama department or the School of Medicine.
Reporters interview news sources, write their stories, and hand them in to the news editor who transfers them to the copy desk. Copyreaders (students in Editing II class) check each story for accuracy, spelling, identification, and grammar, mark directions to the typesetters, and write a headline assigned
by the assistant managing editor for that particular day. It's also his job to make up the front page as well as inside pages other than the sports, society, and editorial pages.
Some days the paper is said to be "tight" which is the newsman's term for days when there is a great deal of advertising and there is less space for news. Other times there are fewer ads and more news can be used.
Guy Pennock, printing room foreman, is shown setting a story in type on the linotype machine.
All stories are then taken to the composing room of the University Press where copy is set up in type and the pages are made up. Next galley proofs are taken and checked by proof-readers. Proofs of made up pages are checked for mistakes by the editor. The paper is ready for the press, and the staff begins work on the next day's paper.
Picture Story by Phil Newman
Nerve center of the Kansan's room is the copydesk where all material to be printed is corrected for possible errors and prepared for the printer. Here assistant managing editor Chuck Zuegner hands out copy to copyreaders Bob Nold, Jeanne Fitzgerald, and Jackie Jones.
Editorial assistant Don Moser confers with Harold Fox, make-up man, concerning last minute decisions on the editorial page.