04-22-2014, 05:07 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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generic newspaper size
How many news articles (just news but including all the small 50-word filler stuff) would you say a generic big city newspaper of the pre-internet 20th Century would have? Just a ballpark figure. 100? 200? More? Less?
(I'm writing about a campaign newspaper and want to compare it to the real thing). Hans |
04-22-2014, 05:44 PM | #2 |
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Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: generic newspaper size
I suggest looking at real examples; http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser appears promising, though the NYT is probably above average even by big city standards.
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04-22-2014, 05:59 PM | #3 | |
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Re: generic newspaper size
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04-22-2014, 06:19 PM | #4 | |
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I might still have some papers from the mid-1990s, I think, before the Web came into being and the Net really took off. I'll do some looking and get back to you. All of my 16 years in the business has been with smaller papers (22,000 circulation at largest), so the story counts I could give you for those wouldn't be terribly representative. One other difference is that newspaper staffs are bigger pre-Internet than they are now, so more of that news will be local content, more of the "big stories" will be covered by the paper instead of automatically relying on the AP, and more of the local stories can be in-depth because staffs can afford to "carry" a reporter for a while until he gets a big piece complete.
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04-23-2014, 04:42 PM | #5 |
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Re: generic newspaper size
Does each obituary or entry in the arrest record count? That will inflate the total considerably.
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04-23-2014, 05:11 PM | #6 |
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04-27-2014, 05:41 PM | #7 |
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Re: generic newspaper size
These days, most obituaries are paid ads; I wasn't counting them in my estimate. (Older papers would often have treated them as news copy turned in from an outside source, which made the obits free to run but also meant editors could rewrite and shorten them however they wanted.) In terms of page planning, editors count the entire police blotter as one story, regardless of how many or few entries it has.
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