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Daily Kansan Serves As Lab For KU Journalism Students
Bv DON NIELSEN
The University Daily Kansan is a unique collegiate publication. In addition to acting as the official student news organ, the Daily Kansan serves as the laboratory for many of the journalism classes.
Students gather news, write stories, edit copy, makeup pages, solicit ads, layout ads, and take pictures all for a grade.
Students enrolled in six journalism courses work on the Daily Kansas as part of their classwork. The courses are: Reporting I, Reporting II, Editing II, Retail Advertising. The Editorial, and News Photography.
"The emphasis is on practical work, not theory," according to Victor J. Danilov, faculty news adviser, who supervises the students' work with R. W. Doores, business adviser.
"Purpose of the program is to prepare journalism students to step into newspaper jobs as smoothly as possible." Mr. Danilov explained.
The newsroom procedure is similar to that on most community newspapers.
The bulk of the work is performed
The sports and society editors, with their assistants, write and edit the material appearing on their pages. Usually the sports and society pages are made up several hours before the Kansan goes to press.
The Daily Kansan's business and advertising staff is headed by a business manager. Subordinate officers in the department are the advertising, classified, promotion and circulation managers.
The Reporting II students are assigned to campus beats, five rewrite hours a week, and special feature articles. As a result, they produce most of the news copy that appears in the Daily Kansan.
All the positions are awarded, directly or indirectly, by the Kansan board, the governing body of the paper.
The Daily Kansan's advertising is in retail, and most students in the Retail Advertising class.
The board consists of from 15 to 19 junior and senior journalism students whose job it is to decide on all major changes in the publication of the Kansan. For example, it was the board which decided on the changing of the "flag" or nameplate of the Kansan this semester.
Editing 11 students serve as copy-readers, editing and writing headlines for all stories except those that go on to the editorial, sports, and society pages.
VICTOR J. DANILOV
Reporting I students serve as copybys in the Daily Kansan newsroom. Editorials and interpretative articles are written by The Editorial class for use on the editorial page. Most of the photographs that appear in the Daily Kansan are taken by members of the News Photography class.
by students taking Reporting II,
Editing II, and Retail Advertising.
Students working on the Daily Kansas may put in as many as 20 or 25 hours a week of work for a course which gives three hours of credit. The reward comes in practical experience.
Staff members receiving credit for the Kansan work are the various editors and the business manager, advertising manager, and circulation manager. The staff positions on the Kansan are filled only with experience and thus giving students an opportunity to handle a variety of jobs.
The executive positions on the paper are filled by advanced students. These experienced students may receive college credit grades for filling these positions.
the officers selected directly by the board are the editor-in-chief, the managing editor and two assistant managing editors and the business manager. These officers select their own subordinates with the condition that they must be approved by the board.
The administrative setup on the Daily Kansan is divided into three departments—editorial, news, and business.
The news department is directed by the managing editor, who shares the five-day-a-week schedule with his four assistants, putting one of them in charge of the paper each day. This group supervises the copy-reading, editing, make-up and newspaper of the paper.
Besides subscribing to the wire service of the United Press, the Kansan gets the services of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Intercollegiate Press. It is also a member of the Kansas Press association, National Editorial association, and Inland Daily Press association,
The editorial division is under the direction of the editor-in-chief who supervises the editorial page with the help of two editorial assistants.
The paper tries to give complete coverage of campus activities and a roundup of state, national and international news.
The city editor and his assistants plan the news assignments and insure complete campus coverage. The telegraph editor, at his desk next to the United Press teletype, selects wire stories and edits and headlines them.
THE AD SIDE IN ACTION—R. W. Doores, business advisor to the Daily Kansan, (center) is shown discussing ad layout with two advertising students. They are Ted-Barbera, journalism senior and promotion manager, and Dick Hale, journalism senior and former business manager.—Kansan photo by Jim Murray.
Kansan Work Never Seems To End
BY BEN HOLMAN
The typical KU student may first look at an issue of the University Daily Kansan with a thought of expectancy, but one of the many students who take part in its management looks with a sigh of relief.
At the copy desk sits the managing editor of the day, assigning
headlines and giving direction for editing bf the stories by the copy-readers. He must also decide which stories will be used and where they will be used.
At the desk of the city editor, stories are being signed in and checks made so that no late developments are missed. A group of rewrite men are present to rewrite faulty stories.
Dummies of the society, editorial and one or two inside general news pages are sent to the composing room that afternoon. The remainder of the work is left for the next day.
From start to finish, publication o the paper is a matter of meeting one deadline after another. For each department, it is a continual rush to assemble and write the news of the day.
Work on the general news pages of the Kansan is also begun the day
An issue of the Kansan begins the afternoon before publication with the assignment of stories by the city editor to the reporters. These assignments are written in the tip sheet book, a loose leaf ledger. The reporter notes the story assigned to him and initials the tip sheet.
A visit to the newsroom at 8 a.m. the next morning will reveal a scene which seems like confusion. On the contrary, there is a systematic ordering of efforts to wind up the paper by the noon deadline.
Meanwhile, other departments begin work on their pages. Material for the editorial and society pages have a 3 p.m. deadline. Columns and other feature articles for the sports pages are also due at this hour. The remainder of the sports page has a 9 a.m. deadline on the day of publication.
The front uage is the lone page which has not been sent to the composing room by 11 a.m. It is not due until noon.
By 9 a.m. the sports pages and all other general news pages except the first and last must be at the composing room. This is also the approximate time for pictures to be sent to the engravers to be prepared for publication.
Dummies, or blank, columned sheets, duplicates of the paper are turned over to him from the advertising department. These dummies show the placement of ads in the paper. The editors indicate on these dummies the placement of the stories.
A telegraph editor comes on at 10 a.m. and selects from the United Press teletype, wire stories for the world news column on the back page. He also watches for "big" stories which might be given larger "play."
editor or one of his assistants, who has charge of the paper the next before publication. The managing day, begins editing and writing headlines for stories which are in early.
The front page is the lone page assistants checks the paper at the composing room after 1 p.m. to note mistakes and remedy difficulties. Press time is 2 p.m. and by that time the paper must be "locked up" and
sent to presses for printing.
The presses rolling, the students take that sigh of relief at the finished product and begin over again for the next issue.
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