As a member of Military Intelligence Section Seven, Li Wei knew a little about how the news media worked in this world.
Basically, newspapers and magazines had to go through a printing house, but there were two kinds of printing houses.
One was an independent printing house, and the other was owned by the newspaper itself.
The former mainly handled illustrated books, books, magazines, and similar publications. Fortnightlies and monthlies such as Military Intelligence Section Seven's The Explorer and Li Wei's Imperial Comics were in no rush. They could take their time printing, as long as the finished copies were delivered on schedule. There were no particularly urgent deadlines.
But that would not work for daily newspapers, whether morning or evening editions. Their news depended on timeliness, so they could not take things slowly like fortnightlies or monthlies. Besides, news was a newspaper's lifeblood. If they outsourced the printing, who knew whether the printing house would turn around and sell their stories to someone else?
Or it might find an excuse to delay production. Once the news lost its timeliness, they would be finished just the same.
That was why these newspapers generally built their own printing houses. They did not need to be as large as independent ones. Usually, they occupied two stories, with the printing workshop downstairs and the editorial office and telegraph room upstairs. When news arrived by telegraph, reporters immediately wrote their articles, took them downstairs for typesetting and printing, and then sent the papers straight out.
That was also why Military Intelligence Section Seven's The Explorer was a monthly rather than a morning newspaper. Just hearing the process made it clear that every day was like a battle for a newspaper. Military Intelligence Section Seven already had its hands full with supernatural incidents. Where would