The narrow understanding of newspaper editing workflow is to regard the editing and publishing of a newspaper as a cycle. For example, the publication of a daily newspaper, from the last issue to the next issue, takes 24 hours as a cycle, and the arrangement procedure of editors' processes in this day is the newspaper editing workflow. Under this premise, newspaper editors usually start with receiving specific manuscripts. For example, People's Daily receives an average of more than 300 letters from the society every day, accounting for about half of the manuscripts. The mass work department is responsible for receiving and classifying these manuscripts, distributing them to different professional departments after screening, and then the editors of professional departments screen, process and edit the spare manuscripts with comments, comments, materials, charts and so on. When necessary, or organized into columns, pages, proof, revised by the director or editor. Finally, these spare manuscripts are transferred to the page editor for selection and modification, and then the layout is designed.
The narrow understanding of editing workflow is actually in the broad sense of newspaper editing workflow, omitting the first few processes related to editing planning, and only examining the specific editing and editing combination process. This understanding has some truth, because newspaper planning and report planning, as decision-making processes, have a relatively long operation cycle, and a newspaper only needs to be edited and designed as a whole when it is first published or revised. Once the plan for running a newspaper is determined, it will be implemented for a long time (with minor adjustments occasionally). Report planning is generally aimed at more important topics, and it is often not completed by a manuscript or a report on a certain day, so it will continue to be implemented for a period of time. Therefore, for newspaper editors, the daily work procedures that must be carried out every day are mainly specific processes such as editing and assembly.
However, whether in practical work or in the learning process of newspaper editing course, the understanding of newspaper editing business should be based on the overall development of the newspaper industry. We should not only master specific editing skills, but also learn macro editing and planning business. Especially in the period of market economy, the competition faced by newspapers is increasing day by day, and the change of newspaper running strategy and the adjustment of editing policy are more and more frequent than in the past. Newspaper planning and report planning occupy an increasingly important position in editing work. It is extremely necessary to understand and grasp the workflow of newspaper editors in a broad sense.