The news room is the heart of any newspaper and is divided into three sections - business, mechanical, and editorial. The news editor heads the news room and coordinates the functions along with chief and various sub-editors. News is collected by staff and agencies, selected and edited by the chief sub-editor and editor for publication or rejection. It is then presented on a dummy for page layout in the print process. Modern news rooms are becoming electronic and paperless, using software for editing and pagemaking to prepare the final copy for printing.

1. Functioning of News Room

2. Newspaper office can be divided into
three parts
1.Business
Section
2.Mechanical
Section
3.Editorial
Section

3. Editorial Section
a. Editorial Writing
Department
b. Feature Writing
Department
c. Bureau (Reporting
Department)
d. News desk or the news
room

4. News Room
The new room is the heart of newspaper. The person at
the helm of affairs in the newsroom is the news editor. He
is the one who controls ,co-ordinates and facilitates the
functions carried out in the newsroom. His team consists
of chief sub-editor and different ranks of sub-editors.

5. Powers
a. News editor:- gatekeeper decides what will
be published in the newspaper, decides
format, front page story and placement of
news matter on pages. His main job is of
major coordinator, guides, directs, selects
news, delegates power and duties.
b. Deputy news editor:- In absence of news
editor he exercises as news editor. News
room administrator, senior member of
editing staff and guides junior staff.
c. Chief sub-editor:- Works on the command
of editor, does editing, make up all. He gets
direct order from deputy editor and sends
to sub-editor.
d. Sub-editor:- Edits, correction, add, delete
news story guided by chief sub-editor.

6. Functions
a. Collection :-
News is collected by staff
correspondents, reporters, news
agencies- UNI, PTI, Reuters.
b. Selection and editing :-
Selection of news done by chief
sub-editor, editor and decides
news whether to be published or
not.
Editing:- correction , make-up,
language, headline, picture.
c. Presentation:- Dummy is
prepared.

7. Functions of electronic news room
a. Penless
b. Paperless news procedure
c. E-news (electronic news)
d. Quark Xpress (software of
editing)
e. Pagemaking: To prepare
copy for final printing