Printing Newspapers...

[janzman]

...The death of Andrew Sachs was first reported on AB at 23.22 last night. The 'Daily Mail' this morning had extensive coverage but 'The Sun' had no mention of it .So I wonder what time these papers are 'put to bed' ie printed.

[ToraToraTora]

they are often sold around the pubs near the print works before closing the day before they are out so I'd say they the first run is done around 9-10pm.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Agreed. Sunday newspapers are available at London's mainline train stations from mid-evening onwards on Saturday.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember about 50 years ago that the Newcastle Journal (local paper) was available at the station the night before.

[TheChair]

Ironically, the Mail juxtaposed its front-page article about Andrew Sachs with yet another moaning about immigration.

Sachs arrived in Britain in 1938 as Andreas Siegfried Sachs, a Jew fleeing with his family from Nazi Germany.

At the time, of course, the Mail was running articles complaining about "German Jews pouring into the country".

[mikey4444]

TheChair...."Hurrah for the Blackshirts ! "

[janzman]

Interesting responses but no answer to why The Mail had coverage and The Sun didn't.

The Chair.......the content of my post is irrelevent, it's to do with newspapers printing times.

[Buenchico]

Different publishers have different distribution arrangements. Menzies (who act as wholesalers throughout much of the country) in Manchester, for example, might receive some titles from a late run which is actually printed in Manchester but only get first editions from other titles printed in London.

[jno]

newspapers sometimes have more than one edition every night; eg if the Mirror had a scoop they wouldn't put it in the first edition, to stop the Sun stealing it. In the old days this was because they were all printed in London, and the first edition would need to be put on a train in time to reach the far north or west before breakfast, which might mean printing about 10pm. Not so necessary these days when scoops usually go onto the websites first anyway.

The story is on the Sun's website timed at 11.50pm last night. Maybe they didn't print another eidtion of the paper after that.

[EDDIE51]

I friend of mine used to work as a printer for a newspaper I think it was the The Mail. He used to arrive in the local social club just before 11 pm closing and always had a few copies of the next days paper with him that he gave away to his mates.

[ichkeria]

The Times goes to press early so maybe it's sister paper does likewise