Production

Copyright © The Deddington News 2008

Deddington News is an A4, 17-page (16pp + cover) magazine, printed in black and white and stapled twice along the outside edge. Editorial pages are printed on white paper, and are interleaved with pages of advertisements printed on yellow paper. Inserts are limited to three A5, or A4 folded, sheets per month. No more than the equivalent of two pages of adverts are accepted each month for inclusion in the editorial pages.

The print run (2008) is 1,085. Printing of news pages is an in-house process, on a Risograph machine housed in the Primary School. The annual advertisements on yellow pages are printed in two half-yearly runs by Eagle Press of Abingdon, and stored in rented space in the school. Inserts are supplied ready printed by the advertisers.

The same cover illustration is used for each year’s issues (the 2008 design is drawings by children from the school), printed in monochrome on a different colour each month, with the exception of a one-off full-colour cover for December.

Manual collation and stapling of each issue takes about two hours, and is undertaken at the school by a team of some 20 volunteers. Thirty or so individuals act as distributors for various streets in the parish.