You should ask your local newspaper if they have tours & if you can go on the next one & when it is.

You could also go to their offices, walk around to the back of the building & see what kind of stuff they get delivered to their loading docks

There are news stands all over the place where you can buy a cuyrrent newspaper, and most large cities have what is called a “News Dealer” which is like a book store, only it carries newspapers from all over the world … you might want to go browsing there.

There are associations of newspaper people which you can find on the internet … here for example

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp

Several schools of journalism have publications and web sites that talk about the newspaper and magazine business

http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270051346/page/1175295297393/JRNHomePage.htm

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more

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=journalism+school+news

The question of forgery is a whole other topic … the paper and inks used in newspapers are CHEAP compared to that which is needed by forgers, although the state of art is such that a lot of people are doing forgeries with ordinary computer color printers, and a lot of those people are going to jail.

This brings us to the topic of the US Mint

http://www.usmint.gov/index.cfm?flash=yes

teh mint makes the coins

Bureau of Engraving and Printing makes the notes

They are run by the Treasury Department of the US government

http://www.treasury.gov/

… similar institutions in other nations.

Another branch of the Treasury is the Secret Service, which has several jobs … protecting the nation’s currency, and some important people like the President.

http://www.secretservice.gov/

More sources of relevant info

http://www.treasury.gov/topics/currency/