One time, when the only means of getting local news was a copy of the HDM, I loved it. Now I'm sad to say I hate it - thisishulland eastriding - local version of the sun - full of sh*te articles of little substance that's replicated in each of everyone of this Northcliffe Newspaper Group's rags or whoever they are. Worst aspect is the f*cking messages posted online about respective articles by disingenuous idiots, some of whom actually slag off the paper itself and it still gets printed. Unbelievable. Gone are the days when you had to write a letter to the paper to get it 'printed' on the 'Letters page' and not before you'd proven your identity - how times have changed.
Remember when living in London in the late 60s we sometimes bought tomorrow mornings paper at 10 o'clock at night in Fleet Street.
in my experience of working in newspapers, albeit quite a few years ago, all but one or two of the 'news' pages are planned editorially well in advance of publication, and in many cases the pages themselves are physically actually made up many days in advance.
Precisely my point. For example, approx 80% of Saturday's biggest seller The Sun will already be written.
The H D M used to be able to print a Budget Edition on the day of the Budget. Sports Mail was printed on the Day of the Matches I remember delivering them when I was a paper lad. Is printing the day before progress?
You said "daily paper" and I said every single daily paper is printed the day before the publication date. That's why readership is so low now we live in an instant world - its out of date when we read it - and why newspapers face the most uncertain period in history.
I possibly cant go back that far as a serious reader, but i d hazard a guess that, just like all news, most of it is written and produced in advance from editorial meetings. The paper will have been produced in 4 or 8 page sets (double sided of course), with the true daily content (ie racing results, rugby union, league and football results) confined to those 4 or 2 page sets able to be printed and paginated shortly before the vans had then quickly out onto the news stands. It was a different labour intensive process then but profitability was still king
