What were the most surprising or unexpected things you’ve learned about making a newspaper?
DE: We’ve been on a quarterly schedule for a long time. We’ve put out books in the meantime, but they’re rarely very intensive in terms of the combination of images and text and captions and headlines. We’ve done a few books that have had all those elements, but we’ve had six months to do them. The fact that there are so many details—you know that there’s gonna be that many details—I’ve put out magazines and I’ve worked on newspapers. But when you have a team of five, which is really what we had, and you have to do all of these different things, it just seems to never end. I can’t count the number of times when we were about to send a section to press and we realized we didn’t have any page numbers on it. It was detail number 900. If we were gonna do it again, we’d have templates for all these sections. The Bay Bridge story went to press at 3:30 p.m. the day before we came out. Everybody there was fact-checking and proofing over and over until the last minute. I was in charge of proces
