ABSTRACT
In the traditional print newsroom production model, the reporter is assigned a story by the news editor or content editor. Once the story is written, it goes back to that editor. If approved, it then passes to the sub-editors. Their job is to prepare it for publication: correcting any errors, doing any necessary rewriting, writing the headline, making sure the story fits the design of the page and the hole allotted to it by the chief sub-editor, and generally polishing the look of the story within the page. In this model, which is how most newspaper newsrooms functioned right into the 21st century, and in some cases still do, the story passes through several pairs of hands – the reporter, the news editor, the chief sub-editor and then the sub-editor, and probably the editor or deputy editor as a final pair of eyes.
