This is the last of four posts in which Spec Opinion explains how we receive, edit, and choose outside submissions for publication. Here, we explain what happens on the night before submissions go to print.
Before every night of production begins, the editorial page editor will draw up a budget for the opinion pages in the following day’s paper. The amount of outside content—op-eds and letters to the editor—we run on any given day depends on the amount of internal content we have scheduled. Columns and staff editorials go to print on a regular schedule and we give them priority for logistical reasons. Once space for regular content is allocated, we fill the remaining space with op-eds and letters.
