INTRODUCTION: THE QUARK REVOLUTION
A sociologist writing about the press divided newspaper staffs into gatherers and processors. The gatherers: reporters of all types, photographers, feature writers and, of course, news and picture agencies. The processors: editors of all types including departmental heads, layout artists, subeditors and not forgetting the office lawyer by whatever title.
The writer in question noted that the processors marginally exceeded the gatherers in numbers. This was to be expected since, unlike books, newspapers are complicated things requiring a good deal of planning, decision taking, sorting and choosing of material and targeting on particular readerships, whence stem techniques in text editing, headline writing, illustrating ...
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