Monday, February 27, 2012

Newspaper Notes

*Two sizes of newspapers
1) Broad sheet (our school newspaper) (Four or Five stories) (With a jump)
2) Tabloid

*Flag/Masthead (Top of the Page)
Name of the Paper
Teaser
---Doesn't usually change besides for story topics

*Folio
Name of the Place, Motto/Slogan, Date
Other pages:
Title of the Newspaper, Date, Page number, Section title 

*Headlines
Drawing attention
First paragraph description

*Pictures
Dominant  Photo

*Subheadline
One per page on a broad
More details
Complete sentence
Byline: Author's name, Position

*Caption
Caption Headline (Complete sentence)
Photo credit
Insight into the picture
---Who, What, Where, Why, When, How? (Whats happening)
---Background information

*Jump
At the end of the story

*Infographics
"Sidebars"
Information, in graphic form! :o
Fun little box! Little drawing!!

Table of Contents
Volume
Number

Staff Box
Everyone involved in the newspaper
Policy
Organizations we belong to

"Above the fold"
Most important story, biggest picture, headline

Front Pages of the World

1) My favorite newspaper front page is the Dallas Morning News, because of its column of news blurbs on the left. This gives me a quick insight into the stories with in the paper.
2) My favorite headline from this newspaper is "Too many friends to count." It got me interested in the topic and the rest of the story. The picture to the right of it of a smiling man and a picture below, the same man holding a keyboard in the middle of the road supplemented my interest to find out more of what it was about.
3) There are 16 stories displayed on the front page of the newspaper.
4) All newspaper front pages have a key photo that is the largest and usually in the middle of the poster. Just as well the name of the newspaper and the key photo's headline are the first thing you see. They display date and a price.
5) The positioning of different stories against the main story is usually fairly different between each newspaper. Also,  the amount of stories and text on a front page differs dramatically between different newspapers.