How The New York Times Is Made | The Making Of

The New York Times is considered one of the most reputable publications in the world. To print the paper in a timely fashion and have it arrive on readers' doorsteps by the next morning, crews at the paper's printing plants work through the night. They start their shift at 10 p.m. and end around 3 a.m. About 80,000 copies of The New York Times are printed an hour and it's a non-stop process to get the job done. We visited The New York Times’s College Point Printing Plant in Queens, NY to learn all that goes into this printing process.
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How The New York Times Is Made | The Making Of

[@AAMPictures]

I just started my new job as a printing press operator apprentice... I’ve never had more interest and fun with a job in my entire life.

[@bigsistruck]

I worked in a printing plant in the press and bindery for almost 10 years, it could be a tough job but it never ceased to amaze me.

[@dagreatgibson7957]

@Kerry Robb those machines that process are so amazing, I wonder how they're designed and built in order to get the desired result. Do you know anything about it?

[@Invisibletoday]

@@dagreatgibson7957a lot of machinery and engineering is designed on software called “Autodesk” that’s worth checking out

[@justsurfing2510]

After working 10 yrs on a printing press between 1990-2005 all I can can say it wasn't fun, the crew I worked with good. It was alot of hard work and very messy, oil, grease & ink everywhere but very well paying job after the press I moved to the warehouse and drove a clamp truck.

[@fredliperson9171]

Print is dead! Don't waste too much time with it...

[@chasingtheclouds]

That’s so much paper every day...makes you think how many of these newspapers go to waste

[@ES92-]

hoovesonearth a lot less than back in the days

[@overcome5193]

A lot of them are recycled

[@user-be4dl9rp1e]

Atleast paper is biodegradable

[@ericp4573]

95%

[@thonmoyrahman2270]

Recycled paper turns into newspaper because it is low quality and can be made from the short fibres of mulched paper. Plus, it's nothing compared to the amount of paper used to wipe noses, and other orifices.

[@morrisonben]

0:20 how did he not get a paper cut

[@rayaneliam5371]

Ikr like damn

[@vladiiidracula235]

He isn’t touching the edge, only the surface of the paper. He’s probably gotten quite a few however

[@ImpGimp]

I used to work on such a machine and if you do not touch the sharp edge you will be fine. But again.. you will have many many papercuts.

[@aBc-123-XyZ]

As a former paperboy who delivered the "Daily News" as a teenager living on Staten Island,I can appreciate this. Thanks. 😎✌

[@avcomth]

I am into the printing and publication business. I can tell you that the trees they use for newsprint are planted. And the newspaper are recycled into paperboard and toilet papers we buy from supermarkets. Also, since the age of the internet newspaper circulation have dropped dramatically, and that it won't be much longer before everything goes online.

[@USAFORBETTER]

This really cleared my conscious. As satisfying as it was my heart was dying inside by my environmental conscious. But this comment made me feel better. Thank you.

[@Tripps2564]

While everything is now available online, print will still occur, just less frequently.

[@avcomth]

@@Tripps2564 Yes they do, they're called packagings and labels! and thats where the majority of income for most commercial press come from nowadays. Textbooks also account for a large sector of the printing industry.

[@Tripps2564]

@@avcomth Will textbooks fade away via ipad use you think?

[@avcomth]

@@Tripps2564 Yes they will, but not until the next century I guess. Any print media not requiring physical presence (eg. a box package) will ultimately be digitise and accessed via tablets/computers in the future.

[@xXxSynthxXx]

I can appreciate how much work goes into this.

[@thelaughingtiger146]

I remember the press room of the Times in 1965, I was very young. My Dad was an engineer for the Times. It was a huge room filled with machinery and moving parts, newspapers whirling around huge drums. The clacking and noise was bedlam. I can't describe the noise, it was so loud and terrifying. It definitely was a dangerous place, not like this plant at all! I am here because my memory was jogged about it. I was hoping I could find a video of it during the 60s or further back. When life was much more dangerous.

[@paullavery4030]

My Dad and uncles worked at the Times on 43rd street for many years

[@gerryroman0504]

Missing the sound of the printing machine (Harris) at the Philippine Journalists, Inc., publisher of Peoples Journal and Times Journal.

[@thelaughingtiger146]

@@paullavery4030 Hi! Fellow New York Times baby, my dad worked the "Old" building too.

[@paullavery4030]

@@thelaughingtiger146 my father’s name is Ray and uncle’s name Danny- my brother and I tried getting on the shape list over night but never panned out

[@cuppajoesugar]

search for "farewell etaoin shrdlu". it's about the times' transition from lettertype to phototype

[@cwar2386]

I want that damage part of the roll for practising maths

[@Paul-bm4xj]

You heard that, they were going to be recycled

[@vahim1932]

Absolutely

[@Neo-Hippie]

Looks like you need to practice your English skills too lol 😆

[@dresewright5365]

I work at a printing press I can literally send you some😂😂

[@kumarsagar5842]

The Network Times wants to know your location 😂🤠

[@henk-3098]

I need a roll of toilet paper like that!

[@rohanbansal2324]

Or you could just join Tinder.

[@sundeepborade6770]

NYT IS A TOILET PAPER ACTUALLY 🤣. BAISED NEWS PAPER

[@dilhumbug3963]

All we need to know is where they got the papers from and do they have their own plantation to plant their own trees?

[@rodneyboehner3007]

Is it me or does NY Times look like a giant roll of toilet paper in the video, and doesn't the print looks like a giant skid mark or what?

[@KingdaToro]

Newsprint's almost entirely recycled

[@captainyolowaffle3160]

They probably but it from a paper company, and paper companies are self sustaining cuz if they weren’t, they’d go out of business

[@jaojaoramosramos8813]

they got it from dunder miflin

[@ricardohewitt7149]

I also work at a printing plant and I must say there is a lot more to it than a person would ever guess,an awesome job honestly.😁

[@decentbikersstatus4057]

Hi Ricardo If have any vacant positions of Ctp job please contact me

[@Melissa0774]

I heard that people who work in printing presses have to get blood test to check for leukemia all the time because there's an increased risk of it because of the benzine in the ink. Is that still true?

[@bigsistruck]

​@@Melissa0774I worked at a printing company for almost 10 years and I've never heard of that.

[@Melissa0774]

@@bigsistruck Maybe they don't use benzine, anymore? That stuff is a pretty nasty carcinogen that known to cause leukemia. I was just going off of something I saw someone say in a comment section under a video about Jehovah's Witnesses and how they work for free, sometimes for decades, at their facility in New York, called Bethel. It's the place where they run the whole religion from and print all their books and magazines. It's a facility that's basically like a commune, where the people live there and grow all their own food and try to be as self sufficient as possible and they only get paid like $20 per week for toiletries and outside food and stuff. Some people volunteer there for a few weeks and others may live there for their whole life. The video was about how the religion is a cult and the people are brainwashed. The person in the comment section was saying how you'd have to be brainwashed to work in a printing press for free because of the cancer risk and the need for all the blood test. I don't remember which video it is, or I'd link it.

[@FeebleSaturn3]

Actual newspaper question - how do they print color images so fast? I can understand black ink stamping the plates and going to the paper but how do they keep the colored images so nice and neat?

[@CraigBickerstaff]

It's just a matter of keeping the machines calibrated correctly.

[@Eddieboy3385]

The plates are all assigned different colors so the colors are being applied one color at a time not just all at once they also are consistently being monitored by the pressmen to make sure that everything is coming out nicely and if not they make adjustments to the ink to correct the color

[@ma4lps]

So the plates are fat and alcohol based and depending on negative or positive the one color sticks to the palate which then touches the paper

[@KGSnow2]

They print color photos and ads using four inks: Cyan (Light Blue) Magenta (Pinkish Red) Yellow and Black. The paper passes between four sets of printing cylinders, one for each color of ink. Control of what is called "register" - the perfect placing of each color on top of the preceding color - is done by controlling paper tension as the web of paper passes between the units, and by micro adjustments of the plate cylinder themselves. The video didn't say so, but the inked image is transferred from the plates they showed us to a second cylinder which is covered tightly with a rubber "blanket". It is the blanket cylinder which presses the ink onto the paper under pressure. Actually, two blanket cylinders press against each other, with the paper passing between, thus printing both sides of the web at the same time. A mild detergent-type solution keeps the non image area of the plate clean, while the ink sticks only to the image. Balancing this "ink and water" combination is another thing that the press crew must control throughout the run. Even with modern digital controls, which enable remote control from a central location (they used to have to chase the adjustments by running up to each individual press unit) it is a highly skilled job. At 80,000 copies an hour, a lot can go wrong in just seconds if the crews are't watching closely. Some really, really modern press rooms have laser cameras installed to constantly monitor the quality, but that is still pretty rare in newspaper work.I respect what they do immensely. (Full disclosure- I am retired from 40 years in commercial printing, mostly sheet fed rather than roll fed presses.)

[@elgabrielc]

@@KGSnow2 thanks for the in depth answer! Much appreciated from the perspective of a mechanical engineer that came here looking to learn about the fine detailed plates and how they transfer the image. somewhat similar to the mold steel i design to create features in plastic injection molded parts

[@pigeonnews7153]

Someone should make a documentary about this paper company...….

[@tanias9907]

Imagine how many paper cuts you can get there

[@johaneriksson5224]

@@andriipopa23 1 time in 8 years,

[@KyleBeats_]

why is this still a thing u can read the news as it happens on your phone

[@HOVANA]

some people want nostalgia

[@brownbear1657]

I like it though, and it employs so many people

[@aaryanprem1434]

not all people are you, and reading physical newspapers is a phenomenal experience

[@al5612]

Because being a slave to your phone is only normal if you allow it to be.

[@aleksandersuur9475]

Inertia, people keep reading the newspaper on paper, because that's how they have always done it. Keep in mind, lots of people don't even have smartphones and don't really use internet more than absolutely necessary, that's often people in their 40ies, 50ies not old timers ticking out their last years. If people have done something a certain way for decades they are not going to spontaneously reevaluate and start doing it a different way just because times has moved on by several decades.

[@robbiebay8868]

The New York Times is just a giant toilet paper roll.

[@astergh0st]

not me watching a ton of videos of newspaper factories so i can recreate one accurately in minecraft

[@immortals_1785]

Respected 😂 good one

[@miftahulilman-6766]

thank you for providing us such incredible informations through all your amazing efforts. God protect y'all

[@VegasYouTuberSteve]

Worked on a Goss Metro Liner at the Chicago Tribune late 80's. They had 10, 10 unit presses.

[@landonr1544]

My graphic arts teacher used to be the one to get the news and travel to get information and have to have it back in hours to seconds before it was published. He said it was crazy stressful

[@amisha2129]

Just gonna write early to make people aware of my earliness :))

[@atairabbi496]

The Paper Print industry is dying because of Digital media. I will show it to my granddaughter in the museum.

[@katyoutnabout5943]

Irony is: this video was not uploaded by the new york times

[@54upchuck]

I'm a retired pressman after 47 years Pittsburgh Press, Dallas Times Herald, Los Angeles Times and more. Kind of sad to see so many papers die.

[@danieleubanks558]

I helped install new color printers here! Took them out of the Tennessean in Nashville, cleaned them up, sent them to new york, showed up and put them in!

[@ThePizza28]

So many trees cut for a media practically no one under 40 years old reads, while everyone from 0 to 100 years old has TV, or at least another option to get informed than paper.

[@jimbrown4456]

Probably best not to comment on subjects you have no knowledge of. Look up FSC

[@perspectivism2006]

Ohh, omg that's how people imagine CVS receipts rolls are like😭

[@fytubevw]

Lovely piece of doc!

[@ray_ayy]

I still have no idea how this works.

[@jimbrown4456]

Lithography

[@charlieaviles310]

Imagine the paper cut.

[@KrishnaGupta-oq4fo]

NYT is respected and reputed , FT , TIMES , WASHINGTON POST LEFT THE CHAT

[@ln14517]

0:20 the most painful paper cut

[@JH-ot5mn]

I always wondered where toilet paper came from - now i know! 👍

[@kreuner11]

I wonder what they do with those aluminum plates, could be a thriving collector market for plates with famous events and stuff

[@jimbrown4456]

The problem is the aluminium is worth $. No one keeps old plates, they sell them.

[@TheAlphaZulu]

"most respected journalistic publications in the world" Okay, sure LMAO

[@ph11p3540]

It's been years since I used a printing press that used printing plates. Our printing has gone fully digital plateless for the last 15 yearsl

[@jimbrown4456]

Yet digital still cannot compete with lithography in terms of speed, quality and cost. Lithography will be here for a long time.

[@lynnleigha580]

"respected"?? Good one, lol!

[@smh1245]

Just read it on your phone, it all seems so wateful just for the "feeling" of something physical.

[@Thepirireis]

So many trees wasted for bird cage linings!🧐

[@jimbrown4456]

People just comment on things they have no knowledge of 😂

[@Thepirireis]

@@jimbrown4456 ipso facto😎

[@-linus1688]

Great video! 🏆 Thanks.

[@ThenativeIraqi]

Watching this made me think it’s better to subscribe to the digital copy only !

[@jimbrown4456]

The employee would disagree

[@officialwebs5430]

Imagine how bad of a papercut that can give you at 0:21

[@Malouco]

Interesting stuff

[@keyikush]

In 10 years the newspaper will stop producing

[@GlassHalfEmpty66plus6]

Ahh 3 years ago, when we still had some semblance of faith in our media.

[@jimbrown4456]

A lot longer than 3 years 😂

[@McBike770]

"So many trees wasted" say the folks who think cobalt battery cars are the renewable future. 🙄

[@Ckleatherworks1234]

Fr

[@anthonyamato1288]

Why could I just smell the news paper

[@Phlegethon]

Why am I asked to save paper when newspaper and junk fliers waste so much more than I can in a billion lifetimes

[@GregoryGuerrier]

Watching Insider feels equivalent to watching Mr. Rogers as a kid but now it's on steroids, Great coverage!

[@hawkwood9257]

Gonna start working in one of these companies this Saturday, looking forward to the experience :D

[@kjbopper34vv22]

How's it going? I worked in a print shop for 6 years and the place was like a blackmore, they pay you just enough to keep you there and to survive but you never make a real living

[@jk-qf3lt]

Not trying to burst your bubble but if you are young I would strongly advise against it as career choice, traditional print is dying a slow but steady death.

[@jimbrown4456]

​@@jk-qf3ltthat is completely untrue 😂 print is thriving. Packaging, books etc will always require it.

[@nitush-gc2wz]

Wrongly respected newspaper

[@mitocaf1]

They need to get updated, build an app and send all your info thru it and safe all that time and paper.

[@Molo71]

I love the white sweatshirt guy. He is so handsome.

[@crossroads670]

True

[@danielleverola3941]

he is a very beautiful man like god damn.

[@danielleverola3941]

he also is my beautiful boyfriend

[@greggshouse]

how to they get the paper into the plastic bag for home delivery? By machine? Or does someone have to put each paper into a bag?

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

I havent read newspapers for a while now... i thought everybody already move on to digital world but look like paper industries still going strong...

[@justamrcreeper6467]

They aren’t unfortunately…

[@stevelenores5637]

Newspapers are dying because 1) You can the news faster on your phone and computer, and 2) You can get more in depth coverage when a well researched book is published. Newspapers are mediocre on both counts.

[@BBT609]

Print is still the best

[@captainyolowaffle3160]

0:20 That would be a brutal paper cut

[@00000000000000090322]

What happens to to old newspapers that get recycled? Do they get into new papers??

[@justamrcreeper6467]

Im guessing they do, or in some cases they get recycled multiple times before they end up again at the printing presses again.

[@maxtravers1314]

They can be, anything from new newspaper, toilet paper, paper towels, and eventually once the fibers are too short to have recycled again, it’s biodegradable, and can be used to grow new trees

[@hughJ]

What software are they using for designing the layout, typography, etc? Is it proprietary or has the publishing industry fully transitioned to desktop publishing and using off-the-shelf consumer software?

[@crystaltpwk1367]

Here at 4:20am

[@Graywing]

And I thought that replacing receipt paper was annoying

[@real_saaim1928]

who reads the news papers in 2019

[@sivakrishnat5471]

real _ saaim boomers

[@SR-zi1pw]

Write Save trees in that

[@danielleverola3941]

it’s all recycled paper fun fact!

[@jordanv5676]

But how does the color ink work? Would they need to have a machine place the ink specifically in the right place? I mean if it's black and white paper it wouldn't be that hard, but I'm interested in how color works

[@icrrmr]

It's the same process as the black. There are separate plates for each color(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). The plates have images for their part of the complete image(Google 4 color process). The plates are then placed on their own units with the corresponding color of ink. Then, all the units are turned on and the ink is placed on the paper That's the simple, not too technical way it's done.

[@bradgroves9406]

Black or key plate,cyan ,magenta and yellow plates make up almost all colour printed material

[@josec8896]

I thought that the NYT...was an online news page....

[@BigerBoy]

Soo this is where team trees money is going? 😂

[@boxherold1177]

i think i missed the part where the Clintons tell them what to say

[@johnwhitfield8150]

Box Herold I don’t think you did because that doesn’t happen

[@jarrodschroeder]

The newspaperrrrrrrrrr. Lol.

[@JulietFlair-e7v]

Times used to be very Challenging, I had the worst days of my life living with bad breath, I appreciate you so much Dr Emovon on KZbin, You have restored me my life that was lost already. All the pains are gone, I will keep on telling everyone about you…..😄😄

[@klab3929]

This is why you should go digital..

[@Chicagoguy1984]

Dying industry. If I were those guys I would start planning a plan B

[@youknoweverything7643]

Imagine printing and pressing papers back in 1800s with manual presses with metal dies that you gotta load with ink and press each artjcle headline and lkcture seperately

[@1subscriberwith0videos45]

Am I the only one who got a New York Times commercial before this video?

[@happyorsadkey]

What software are they’re using to create the articles at 1:32

[@rnbpl]

thousands of hands? we should NOT be getting our newspapers anywhere close to our coffee?

[@gavon7618]

Am I the only one who saw the title and thought it was a giant roll of toilet paper

[@jeffreyrichardson]

I found a typo an old box with mark maypo batman in soho

[@mcfilthymcnasty8206]

@ 1:04 Catch that type bleeding off the bottom of the page ? 😆

[@sonletien5245]

how did you do it can you share with me , thank you

[@JonathanFox-uj1rv]

Not any more. I was a part of that world, it NO LONGER EXISTS.

[@estrellafugaz2998]

Newspapers source before internet , and now this seems so many trees wasted.💰

[@MyNameFerdi]

How much tree they need per day?

[@islandxtreme26]

Meanwhile, multiple clips in the video of the printing happening show copies of NEWSDAY being printed (ex. workers checking pages for errors coming off the press - those pages are Newsday, not the NYT)

[@Lambys23]

That facility prints the NY Times, Newsday and USA Today.

[@hawkwood9257]

Just read it online...

[@gisellegigi7334]

I thought it was a giant toilet paper roll

[@wallacegrommet3479]

Written in Washington, edited in Hollywood, made in Queens…

[@venchenzo4943]

Rotogravure is best

[@lukeblasingame9670]

Lmao when they said the most respected in the world

[@cabtaashejwaa2337]

News source before internet 😂😂😂

[@mkgnp]

4:01 newsday?

[@TowDow3]

ok so how can i get my comic printed on newsprint? lol

[@lifestyle4317]

I think newspaper is a wastage in this Era!

[@JohnSmith-gc3kj]

Very good video, except the part about the times being respected…

[@youknoweverything7643]

This ks a crazy feat that this is dkne by hundreds of news papers all over the counntry. My mom and dad own the last news paper that is read every Wednesday by ppl in my city and towns all around. I'm the head sales guy that sells the ad spaces for the paper and we have 120k plus readers thats how many papers are bought every Wednesday. We dont do the printing our self we have a conpany that does it for us.

[@martinmichalko668]

poor trees :(

[@RR-og3xi]

How they use aluminium plate again for next fresh news ?

[@tawfikahmed5764]

The meka of paper cuts

[@peasantarcher2486]

We actually want to know who decides what gets printed

[@tomnewham1269]

The editor is responsible for that.