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My God, It’s Full of Stars

Have you ever wondered what the stars, dots, daggers, or other marks on the top of the front page and section fronts in most newspapers mean? Have you ever noticed them? Now you won’t be able to! I wrote an exhaustive article about editions, or the different versions of a newspaper that may appear across an average day. When two to three times as many newspapers were printed each day—and about 20 to 50 more people were employed on the news and production sides—big papers might produce as many as ten editions each day. This tradition hasn’t disappeared. You can read the whole article at my Patreon site.

  Group of newsies selling in front of South Station, Boston;    photo by Lewis Wickes Hines   ; 23 January 1917
Group of newsies selling in front of South Station, Boston; photo by Lewis Wickes Hines ; 23 January 1917