MODERN NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.

West Coast Times, Issue 2324, 8 September 1876, Page 2

MODERN NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.

. From an article in Fraser for June the following interesting particulars ure gathered, showing how .•' the newspaper Press has . become the mirror, not or a nation, but of the world." The Times, for example, pays £3000 a year for the use of a special wire for six hours every night to Paris, where it has a bureau in which is focuased the history of the whole of Europe during the day that has closed, and it is making similar arrangement with regard to Berlin. Every Sund-iy evening, by a contract entereu into for three years, it enjoys the exclusive use of a wire from Blackfriara to India, Kqually energetic is the enterprise which provides for the distribution of tbc London morning papers throughout the United Kingdom by special newspaper trains, which enables the Times and its rivals to be delivered in Birmingham simultaneously with the publication of the local journals. Nor does the English Press sacrifice —as the American paper j are rather apt to do — the literary excellence of their leading columns in order to acquire priority or pre-eminence as the collectors of news; for as the writer in Fraser observes, "never was newspaper writing so well remunerated as at present, and never before (lid the man who is content to be and to be known as a journalist pure and simple occupy so good a position in society as he does nowadaya." Men of social eminence and literary repute now fill the position of London correspondents to, the best of the provincial Press ; and, says this writer, " I know of one London letter which costs £100 a month." The mechanical invsntion keeps pace with managerial enterprise. The morning papers are stereotyped in 10 minutes after " the forme" is made up As many as six or eight replicas are being worked on as many machines, and thus 60,000 copies per hour are thrown off.