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Originally Posted by Damien
Always found it odd that the Sundays have a different staff. How do they fund it all for a once a week paper? Do only a small minority stay exclusive to the Sunday title in order to get the big stories and the rest pitch in with the other content?
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They have a different staff because they are a different business with a different product.
There tends to be a greater emphasis on investigation and feature pieces in a Sunday paper. The NOTW, to take a topical example, was proud of its emphasis on crime fighting.
People misunderstand Sunday papers because they assume, from the title, that they are basically an extension of the daily paper. They are more easily understood when viewed for what they are - a weekly publication, with staffing levels and production schedules to match (not unlike the regional weekly title I used to write for, although we came out on a Friday rather than a Sunday).
And don't for a minute think that staff at the Sun on Sunday will stand at the water cooler telling the hacks at the daily paper what exclusives they'll be running that week. Competition between the two will be intense.