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News when printing:

We have mentioned more than once that novelty is the number one feature of sensational news. News is a perishable material, as it loses its importance and influence with the passage of time. Therefore, speed has become one of the necessary supplies in the press, especially for the news section, which must observe deadlines with extreme accuracy, so that the printing press does not delay in turning in the times specified for each edition. Because the printing press cannot stop unless a very important incident occurs, to write in a few lines and for only ten minutes, and then resume its rotation again. Everything in the newspaper depends on speed. The secret of that speed is the system, arrangement, and automated method of processing news, no matter how different or varied it is. In the event of an incident occurring shortly before the date of publication, or the occurrence of sudden new developments that make it difficult to rewrite the first story prepared for publication, which forces the journalist to write a new topic or add paragraphs to his first topic - all of this must be done in a few minutes. This is what is happening with the ongoing story, as we mentioned above, because the journalist then writes each paragraph or two at most on a page, then sends them successively to the printing press, and so on until the topic ends. Nor do these ongoing stories arouse the interest of readers because they usually deal with important topics, such as matches in their final phase, election results, trials, council meetings, or fire. The news section deals with these topics under the name (short news - additions - new introductions).

And there is the important or urgent news, and it is usually a summary of a sudden development that is told in strong, expressive words without ambiguity or distortion, and it is the shortest news in the newspaper. Because of its importance, it is customary to write in black or large letters at the head of the subject, or under a separate heading if the subject is new. The characteristics of important or urgent news is that it includes very important points in the news. Its first advantage is that it writes, revises and prints, and then appears in front of readers in minutes. For this reason, news of this kind often appears suddenly and makes its way to the printing press without the reporter and the editor having sufficient information to prove its authenticity, or developments that change its entire subject in the newspaper.

The data broadcasted by the radio can be converted into short news, and this type of news must be written in complete sentences, not in the form that people use in telegrams. Many newspapers allocate a column on their front page to write in black letters these important news that reach them at the last moment, in order to save some time and to avoid the trouble of making any change in their internal pages. And when the urgent news is sent to the printing press, the reporter begins to convert it into a (new introduction) to be at the head of a new story, or to be placed with the old one in the second edition. And if there are other editions to be issued, the informant can re-write his introduction to include more information. There may be developments of interest to the reader, but they are not so important that an introduction is made. Then you write in the form of additional paragraphs and additions under the heading (increase -a) for the paragraph that is placed near the introduction, and (increase -b -) for the paragraph that is placed near the end, and (addition -a) for the paragraph that the story is placed after the end of the story.