What Are the Editorial Pages All About?
A newspaper publishes its views on current events-both local and national-on its editorial pages. This is where editorials, unsigned commentary that reflects the collective position of the newspapers editorial board, appear. Editorials are not news, but rather reasoned opinion based on facts. For example, editorials may criticize the performance of public officials such as the mayor, the police chief, or the local school board; conversely, editorials may praise others for their civic contributions. Whatever the topic, newspapers hope their editorials will raise the level of community discourse.
Two ways this occurs are familiar to any newspaper reader-letters to the editor and op-ed articles (a contraction of opposite-editorial page). Letters are always among the best-read section of any newspaper, for this is where readers express their opinions. Op-ed articles usually run 850 to 1,000 words. Newspapers make space for letters to the editor and op-ed articles freely available as part of their contribution to civic dialogue.
The editorial pages are under the direction of an editor outside the news division. Newspaper people call this separation of church and state, meaning there is a line between news and opinion that must not be crossed. To do so strips a newspaper of its most valuable asset-credibility. For that reason, editorial page editors at some large newspapers report to the publisher, who is the chief executive officer of the company, and not to the executive editor. Other newspapers may have their editorial page editor reporting to the executive editor. Whatever the organizational model, though, neither department can tell the other what to publish in the newspaper.
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