Sunday, January 15, 2012

Production schedule breakdown

Have you ever wondered what the staff of The Colonnade does on a weekly basis to produce the paper? Here is a breakdown for you.

Monday @ 11 a.m.
-EIC adds production budget to GoogleDocs for review by CE

Monday @ 2 p.m.
-Stories due to assigning editors
-All photos are uploaded to the server in The Colonnade office
-Main editors should take the time to make sure they have received all stories and photo assignments and decide if any need to be redone
-Update assigning budget on GoogleDocs so the EIC and CE can see where we stand with stories

Monday @ 5 p.m.
-Meeting with general staff to assign stories and photos in location to be announced
-Ad reps with the ad manager and assistant ad manager in The Colonnade office

Monday @ 7 p.m.
-Updates to the budget for the next production week made in the admin. folder on the server in the office

Monday @ 11 p.m.
-Deadline for stories to be on GoogleDocs and edited by main section editor and assistant editor
-EIC and CE start editing

Tuesday @ 10 a.m.
-EIC lays out the pages and places the ads for the week’s paper and places a copy in each folder on the server
-Main editors and assistants work on notes made on stories by EIC and CE all day
-Work on laying out pages all day

Tuesday @ 8 p.m.
-CE will add what writers he wants to meet with Wednesday nights, if any, and main editors will contact them.
-EIC and CE will be done editing the stories, at least the first read through
-Bobcat Beat is completed by assistant photo editor and ready for placement

Tuesday @ 10 p.m.
-Leisure, Opinion, Community News and Special Section are laid out by this time and ready for page editing
-At least front pages of each section are dummied by this time

Wednesday @ 9 a.m.
-Notes for all stories will be done by main section editors and stories should be ready for EIC to star for the vast majority of stories

Wednesday @ 1 p.m.
-A large portion of the stories are starred by this time and ready for final placement on pages

Wednesday @ 4 p.m.
-At least two pages are dummied for each section and ready to add final edited copy and be printed for page editing when stories on the page are starred on GoogleDocs

Wednesday @ 5 p.m.
-Staff dinner

Wednesday @ 6 p.m.
-Ads are finalized with ad manager and EIC adds the final PDFs to the paper

Wednesday @ 8 p.m.
-Starring is complete for all stories
-At least two pages are ready to be printed and edited on paper by the CE and EIC by this time
-Special Section, Leisure, Opinion and Community News Editors have printed their pages by this time and make the edits suggested by the EIC and CE to their final pages

Wednesday @ 10 p.m.
-At least two more pages have been printed and edited by the CE and EIC for each main section

Wednesday @ midnight
-The remaining pages have been completed and printed and are edited by CE and EIC

Wednesday @ 1 a.m.
-Pages are done being pulled over to the final InDesign file
-Pages are PDFed and sent to the printer via Fetch

Thursday @ 4:45 p.m.
-Papers are delivered to Public Safety by the printer and are distributed by Distribution Manager

Thursday @ 6 p.m.
-The website is updated with new stories by this time

Friday @ 2 p.m.
-Editorial Board meeting to discuss story and photo ideas for the next production week and to critique the current week’s issue


***Editors must meet with contributing writers for their first three stories and as needed throughout the semester***


*Times are subject to change by the discretion of the editor-in-chief.

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