[Nfb-editors] [NFB-editors] Question- What staff is needed to produce a newsletter

[Barbara Pierce]

Ohio has an editor and a production editor. We are very lucky in that one
person can do the layout and maintain the database. I guess I should add my
husband, who is the proofreader. Now that I think about it, we pay a man to
record the newsletter and prepare a CD with audio files for the CD edition
and wave files for downloading to NEWSLINE and our Website. Our president
gets the university where he works to duplicate the CDs, and he fills the
mailers and puts on the labels. I label the print newsletters. All these
things are jobs that could be spread out, but, the more things are spread,
the more time it takes. In passing let me urge the importance of a good
proofreader. I hope it is unfair to judge the quality of the editing done in
newsletters by the number of grammatical and punctuation errors made on this
list, but the mistakes made here are a stark reminder if any is needed that
we are but human and can benefit from review by another mind. I, by the way,
have my email set so that every message is spell-checked before it goes out.
When I am being very careful, I reread and edit my posts. I think editors
should try to be above casual mistakes.

Cheers,
Barbara

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:23 AM
To: editors nfb list
Subject: [Nfb-editors] Question- What staff is needed to produce a
newsletter

Dear Editors

 

Help me out, others too. In my efforts to know all that it takes to create,
produce and distribute a newsletter, I need to know the nature of the staff
that this enterprise requires. Yes, it will differ from one publication to
another. And sure, the number of people and the tasks that they do will also
differ, sometimes out of personal style or lack of helping hands. Write in
and tell me of the different types of staffers that you have and give a
brief description of what they do. Please and I will keep track of this; a
new start-up newsletter will gain from this information. 

 

Thank you

 

 

 

Robert Leslie Newman

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division Website

 <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org

Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

Personal Website-

 <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

 

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