Each day – Sunday through Thursday – at 4:30 p.m., the editorial board of The Oklahoma Daily sits down to discuss the following day’s paper and debate which issue to write about here, in the Our View space.
During that meeting Tuesday afternoon, we discussed a couple potential issues for the Our View you are currently reading, and we decided to try to give you a bit of insight into how things work in the newsroom. Because, just as we demand transparency from other OU organizations, we want to be as transparent as possible.
Following the daily meeting, each desk’s editor makes his or her way to the designated area set aside for each section of the paper. The newsroom is a large, open room, and inside there is a cluster of desks and computers for each of The Daily’s sections — news, opinion, sports, life & arts and photo, as well as a copy editing area.
Once at his or her desk, each editor gets to work editing the stories, columns and photos that will appear on his or here page the next day. Each editor then lays out which ever page or pages he or she has been assigned.
When the pages are laid out, mock copies are printed and given to copy editors who read and edit them before passing them along to another copy editor for further review. Once it is all said and done, the section editor and two copy editors have edited each page.
From there, the page in-question is ready to be printed. To assemble the entire newspaper, it usually takes until around 10 or 11 p.m.
All this may seem to indicate the people who work for the various sections don’t often collaborate. But as this is going on, we are all in the same room and often ask for each other’s advice or help.
Because we understand we are all working for the same goal: To put out the best newspaper and Web site with the best and most relevant information we can for the OU community.
We try to make as few mistakes as possible, but mistakes do happen. And when one shows up on a page, the other editors, writers and photographers feel the same frustration as the editor who is in charge of the page on which the mistake appeared.
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