What different jobs are in the newspaper?

Answer 1

organisational structure of a newspaper can be grouped by: frequency of publication; this is dailies or weeklies and a paper has to appear at least five times in a week to become a daily.

secondly is market size; national, large, medium, small. National; the publication covers the whole nation and not a particuler region or state. For example, the Nigerian punch is a national paper and the USA Today are good examples.

Large metropolitan dailies; these are papers in a large city. the Indianapolis News is an example.

Medium sized dailies; this is communities of 100,000-500,000 in size. the circulation in this is now about 11 percent from 1996 to 2006.

Small town dailies; this category of news papers has suffered the most from circulation losses.

Answer 2

Jobs in a newspaper can include reporters, journalists, editors, photographers, graphic designers, advertising sales representatives, delivery drivers, and marketing specialists. Each role plays a crucial part in producing and distributing the newspaper.

Answer 3

1. Editorial Department

This department is headed by the Editor who is responsible for

- Collection of news.

- Selection of news and features

- Editing of news and features and

- Interpretation of news

The editor of the newspaper alone cannot handle the editing work and is therefore assisted by Chief correspondent, Resident editors, Managing Editors Dy. Editors, Asst. Editors, News Editor (Night and day), Sub-Editors and other functionaries like photographers, cartoonists, feature writers and reviewers. Various types of correspondents are engaged in collection and supply of news to the newspaper's Editorial department.

2. Advertising Department : Advertising is the major source of revenue fro a newspaper. As such, the work of collection and publication of advertisements becomes crucial in a newspaper organization. The Advertising department looks after this work. There can be several sections in this department one to look after local advertising, one for classified ads, one for general / national advertising, one for legal advertising and yet another one for preparing copy and so on.

3. Circulation Department : As circulation is the life blood of a newspaper, this department assumes great importance. The main responsibilities of the circulation department are

- Selling the newspaper

- Delivering it and

- Collection from subscribers.

4. Printing Department : It looks after all the work of printing including installation of machines, plant layout, composing, processing, loading, scheduling, maintenance of machines etc.

5. Administrative Department : This department looks after the general administrative work pertaining to personnel their selection, training, promotion, allotment of work, maintaining leave record, liaison with government departments, general facilities and all such work that facilitates working of other departments. In the absence of a separate legal department the administrative department also handles the work pertaining to legal matters.

6. Accounting Department : Quite evidently, this department looks after all the accounting work like maintaining books of accounts, preparing balance sheet and other financial statements, payment, receipt, preparation of budget, financial planning, cost control etc.

7. Stores Department : It is charged with the responsibility of proper storage of raw material (newsprint) and other materials used in the newspaper office.

Big newspaper establishments also maintain separate departments fro personnel, legal and public relation matters. The personnel department looks after the work of manpower planning and all personnel functions from hiring to firing (selection, training, placements, promotion, compensation, employee welfare, performance appraisal, personnel research, retirement, personnel policy formulations etc). in many cases, these functions are carried out by the administrative department. The legal issues are handled by the law department. The work of maintaining public relations I of the public relations department. On account of intense competition, promotion of mews paper has become significant. Truly, newspapers urge others to advertise but seldom make use of advertising and other promotional methods for themselves. In the recent past, however, newspapers have realized the usefulness of a promotion department to look after this work. Big dailies also have a data processing department to carry out data processing functions. Such as department is manned by a data processing manager, computer supervisors, computer operator, key punch supervisor, programmer, systems analysts and control clerk.

Answer 4

Mostly service jobs that require little to no experience at all.

Answer 5

editorial, advertising, and production