Matchless Newspaper Translation Services

Newspaper translation is translating press pages and cuttings - reports, editorials, notices and classified items - as they appeared in print. The work goes to translators who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier.

Typically lawyers, researchers and press offices who need what a paper actually printed, in evidence or in a review. In each case someone downstream relies on the file being correct, so a term rendered two different ways in the same document is not a small problem, and a second reviewer checks the work before it is sent. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

Yes. Newspaper translation is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. What moves the figure is the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Newspaper translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.

Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available, and the delivery time is confirmed in writing before you pay. Newspaper translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date. If a deadline cannot be met you are told at quoting stage, not on the day.

The 99+% accuracy standard comes from human work plus an independent check: one translator produces the file, and then another verifies it line by line against the source. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. What gets checked on newspaper translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. That second pass is what catches a term rendered two different ways in the same document.

Files are handled under NDA, moved through encrypted transfer and seen only by the assigned team. Newspaper translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. They can also be deleted on an agreed schedule after delivery, with written confirmation.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text, or your own template applied so the file comes back ready to use. Headings, tables and numbering are built properly instead of pasted in. The format for newspaper translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend.

The masthead, date, page and column are recorded with the text, because a cutting is cited by where it ran. That is settled before work begins and not discovered afterwards, so the first delivery is the one you can use. The translator works into their own first language, which is what keeps long text readable instead of merely correct.

Worth asking for: photo captions, subheadings and any correction notice are translated too, since those carry claims of their own. It is easier to set at order stage than to retrofit, and it costs nothing on top of the quoted rate when it is part of the original brief. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.