![]() The finished product will never be perfect. ![]() I’m also responsible for subbing the splash (front-page lead story) – all while ensuring the news pages are “off stone” by the first edition deadline.Įach day, the subeditors on the Guardian news pages get through between 25,000 and 35,000 words. Along with other revise subs, I check over the subs’ work. On the news section of the newspaper, reporters write the articles, desk editors commission and finesse their copy, designers (or layout subeditors) liaise with picture editors and graphic designers to draw up pages, and, finally, subeditors check, correct, cut and coax the copy into the allocated space before getting to work on the all-important page “furniture”: headlines, subheadings, pullout quotations and picture captions.Īs production editor, my job is to act as a link between the duty editor, news desks, page designers and subeditors. All while trying to shake off the well-earned “Grauniad” reputation, of course.
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