Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of
The Titusville Herald
The Titusville Herald Established June 14, 1865. The first daily newspaper in the Pennsylvania Oil Region.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
75 CENTS
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150 Years =
That’s quite a milestone. We’ve produced this extra hefty edition to celebrate our sesquicentennial, and give our readers an opportunity to get to know the men and women of The Herald.
We’ve served as community stewards for the past century and a half, and would be honored to continue in that capacity for generations to come. Thank you for reading.
Notes on Herald operations for records By Joshua Sterling jsterling@titusvilleherald.com
When The Herald turns 175, and, hopefully, 200, the staff then may find interest in the way the news of the Titusville area was constructed for print and the Internet in 2015. Monday to Friday, the business office generally works from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. There currently are two full-time people working in the business office. They handle walk-in customer inquiries, telephone calls from advertisers, funeral homes and customers, as well as circulation issues. The advertising department has three full-time sales reps. They primarily work 8 to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. The ad reps solicit advertising from prospective customers, both by telephone and physically going to business locations throughout the region. The graphics department is a two-person area of The Herald office, both fulltime positions. They work Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless the workload dictates a later hour. The graphics department builds advertisements that appear in the print and online editions. They also create Herald marketing material and layout most special sections. Additionally, the graphics department prepares The Herald’s daily edition template, by creating the necessary number of pages in Adobe InDesign, and placing all ads on the template. Graphics also builds commercial print products. The Herald newsroom currently employs five full-time employees: a managing editor, a sports editor, and three reporters. Responsibilities are often shared amongst all newsroom employees. One reporter works a day shift, arriving at 8 a.m., working until 4 p.m. The rest of the newsroom arrives at the office at 3 p.m., and works until around midnight. Throughout each night, stories are retrieved from throughout the city and area, photos are taken and the reporters return to the office to write the news and choose photos to run with it. The managing editor typically works the whole night laying out the newspaper’s print edition in Adobe InDesign, working first on inside pages before placing stories
Classifieds...................10 Comics...........................6 Help...............................7 Opinion...........................4 Sports............................8 Vital Statistics.................3
The newspaper man’s newspaperman Herald
“There are professions which offer greater recompense, but none with greater opportunities for public service,” wrote the man who guided The Herald through almost 35 years of its history. Edgar Taft Stevenson, who purchased The Herald in 1921 and continued as editor until his death on Dec. 9, 1956, was an ardent baseball fan, loved railroading, and was an amateur historian and civic leader. But, he was first and foremost a newspaper man.
Herald photo/Ty Lohr
Karol Hartley recently retired from The Herald’s business office, but she still helps out. Her decades of experience are priceless to the newspaper. Natalie Dodd, who started with The Herald as a reporter this spring, ‘lays out’ pages, using Adobe InDesign, a desktop publishing software. In the background is Herald reporter Joshua Sterling, who has been with the paper for about 3 1/2 years. Ray Szalewicz stopped in the office recently, and remarked about how he is amazed at the quiet in the newsroom. In his days as a Herald staffer, in the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the newsroom was full of clacking typewriters and other background noises. Our keyboards may be hushed, but good conversation and running jokes still fill the newsroom today.
See NOTES, page 3
Herald Index
209 W. Spring St. — our home base. Reporters, photographers and sales people traverse the Oil Region for assignments and advertisements, compiling what they need to produce the coming edition before returning to our one-story office. Our Spring Street location is perfect for the newsroom — it’s right downtown and within walking distance of most stories, as well as a cup of coffee.
Special newsprint
The extra wide newsprint you hold before you is a special format just for this edition. We wanted to recreate how the newspaper felt in the hands of readers in the 19th century. We’ll return to our normal size paper Monday.
Contact us
The Titusville Herald 209 W. Spring St., Titusville, Pa., 16354 Phone: (814) 827-3634 Online: www.titusvilleherald.com E-mail: news@titusvilleherald.com
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Death
■ Debra Ann Cooper, 61
For 12 to 16 hours a day, for most of 34 years, Stevenson was at his roll-top desk in the old Herald building on South Franklin Street, writing editorials, editing copy, writing headlines and overseeing the operation of all departments. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1956, the day the first issue in the new Herald building on West Spring Street was being prepared, he paid a brief visit to what was to be his new office. That night, he was admitted to Saint Vincent Hospital, in Erie, for treatment of a kidney ailment. He died there, following minor surgery, 12 weeks later, never having had the opportunity to direct publication of an issue in the new building. E.T. Stevenson, who started his career setting type for no pay for a weekly newspaper in Sandy Lake, was a “newspaperman’s newspaperman.” Twice he turned down nominations for presidency of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association and his paper was admired and envied by publishers over a wide area. His standards, for himself and his paper, were high and unassailable. He never smoked or drank, though he was personally tolerant of these habits in others, and his newspaper carried no
See STEVENSON, page 3
E.T. Stevenson, publisher, 1922-1956
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Weather
TODAY: Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77.
TONIGHT: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7 p.m. Low around 62.
For a complete forecast, turn to page 3.
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