Monday, February 27, 2012

Newspaper notes

  • 2 sizes of newspapers, first size is like school newspaper called "broad sheet".
  • Other size newspaper is called "tabloid".
  • The flag has the name of the paper in it.
  • The top photo is called the teaser.
  • Folio- W. Charles Akins High School under teaser photo.
  • Folio- The title of the newspaper, the date, page #, name of the section, a slogan or motto.
  • Headlines need to draw attention, be creative.
  • Subheadlines should be below headlines, subheadline gives more details about the story.
  • Photo captions have caption headlines, grabs attention, gives inside about the picture, give credit to the photographer, 2 sentences makes a good caption, 1st sentence describes what goes on in the picture (who, what, when, where, why, how) and 2nd sentence is background info about the picture.
  • Bi line should have the persons name and the position they are.
  • Have to have stories.
  • Info graphics, info in graphic form, additional info not in the story, in fun little creative box.
  • The table of contents should be on the front page, the volume number and the issue #, and barcode (?)
  • The staff box is in every paper, the names of staff and position, organizations we belong to, and the policy is written in the staff box.

Front pages of the world

1. The Oregonian because the title is cool and I love Oregon.
2. My favorite headline is "Sea lions may lose their spot" because it talks about how to save the sea lions and it's so in detail.
3. 6 stories
4. They all have columns of texts that look very boring.
5. The pictures on the front pages vary from being tall to wide to big to small.