Abstract
An unexplored collection of memos in Princeton University’s Edmund Yates archives demonstrates the importance of collaboration between editor and sub-editor during a critical period of transformation in the press. Yates, a New Journalism innovator, edited several periodicals during the 1860s and 1870s, such as Tinsley’s, Temple Bar, The Train, Comic Times, Town Talk, and Time. When he established The World with E. C. Grenville Murray in 1874, Yates had a clear vision of what his new paper should be. This essay evaluates memos between Yates and sub-editor Charles Thomas to reveal the inner workings of the paper and suggest that Thomas’s job involved much more than the cutting and pasting practiced by traditional sub-editors.
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