I owned (emphasis on the past tense) two very small weekly newspapers. For well over a year I owned three, and for about a week I owned four. I had a partner at the time and the partner decided one day he didn't want a partner anymore, so we ended up with two newspapers each.

I was only in the editor's chair for a couple of years, then we hired other people to do it. Having people rewriting articles while I was doing layout would have been too late for the articles to get in that week, so that would have not been good. It was a miracle we filled those pages at all and a testament to our reporters and our editor.

I much preferred layout over editing anyway. Layout was like a puzzle to be solved. Editing can be really fast and easy, and it also be like slogging through mud. Depended on the reporter.