We all know that newsrooms can look like ghost towns during the last two weeks of December. Some managers weren’t thinking clearly when they approved all those holiday vacation requests. Now, it looks like you practically have to put the newspaper out yourself.
This happens a lot especially at smaller papers. Of course, at small papers copy editors routinely juggle editing, headline writing and design throughout the year. But if you are one of those editors who don’t often design pages and are feeling a little rusty, Tim Anderson has a quick refresher for you on the basics.
Anderson, who teaches and leads the journalism sequence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was the news design editor at The New York Times before returning to Nebraska, where he grew up in a small town. He worked for more than 30 years as a reporter, editor and designer at papers in Nebraska, Missouri, Florida and New York.
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