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Guide in Creating a

School Newspaper
Newspaper for
High School

12x18in

5columns

.5 Margin Top & Bottom


Left & Right

With Default Gutter

2
Newspaper for
Elementary

9x12in

4columns

.5 Margin Top & Bottom


Left & Right

With Default Gutter

3
FRONT PAGE
✓ Nameplate

✓ Ears

✓ Banner

✓ Headline
✓ Deck

✓ Columns

✓ Column rule
✓ Index

✓ Folio

* In place of date, volume and issue number,


write your year and section, school year, and
quarter.
✓ Cutline and Creditline

REQUIEM FOR HEROES. Rescuers dig out of the muddy rubble


the bodies of a fireman, an engineer and a volunteer who died
trying to save the victims of a landslide at Sitio Buyagan in La
Trinidad, Benguet, on Friday. EV ESPIRITU/INQUIRER NORTHERN
LUZON
Byline

150 die in Benguet slide

Baby’s body in sack moves mayor to cry

By Delmar Cariño, Vincent Cabreza, Frank Cimatu


EDITORIAL PAGE
✓ Folio

(Write the school year,


quarter and page number
instead.)

✓ Editorial cartoon
✓ Editorial liner
• A short statement/
a quote/
a saying
• Written at the bottom
of the editorial page
• Drives home a message

EDITORIAL LINER
✓Letter to the editor
✓Masthead/
Editorial box

✓Editorial Proper
✓Editorial Cartoon
✓Editorial Column

• Personal opinion by the columnist himself

• May attack, teach, entertain, or appeal


Parts of a Feature Page
✓ Section’s name

✓ Folio

✓ Columns/ feature articles

✓ Byline

✓ Photos

✓ Captions
Characteristics of Feature

✓ Feminine appearance ( e.g. italics and


script types)

✓ Wider columns (usually 3 wide columns)


LAYOUTING
Layout Definitions

•Make-up or window dressing of a


page

•Arrangement of illustrations, texts and


graphics on a page to be printed

•Selection of font styles, sizes and


colors
Importance of Layout

•G i ve s p ro m i n e n c e t o t h e n e w s i n
proportion to its importance

•Makes the pages appear attractive

•Gives the paper a personality/individuality


of its own

•Makes the different contents easy to find


and read
Conceptual Model of An Excellent Layout
UNITY/
HARMONY
■

■
BALANCE
■

■
EMPHASIS
■
■

■
PROPORTION
■

■
■
Extraneous factors that harm an
excellent layout
✓ Tombstoning -placing two or more headlines on
approximately the same level specially if they
are of the same font size and type

H1 H2 H3

H4

*Put a cut /picture between columns; use different


font size and style (family font) for headlines.
✓ Bad breaks – breaking stories to the top of
columns.

H1

H3

H2

*The top of every column should have a


headline or a cut.
✓ Separating related stories and pictures

News H2

story(H
2)

Cut or
picture for
H2
✓ Gray areas or sea of gray

*Use fillers instead.


✓ Screaming headline – one that is too big for a
short or unimportant story

H2

H1 H3 *Use only the banner or


streamer structure for
the most important
headline.
H4
✓ Heavy tops ( Don’t make the page top heavy.)

H1 H2 H3

*Proportion texts and pictures.


✓ Fit them all

*Avoid many headlines of the same size on a page.


*There should only be 5- 7 headlines on the front
page.

✓ Placing small heads on rather long story

*This refers to headline font size.


*Proportion headline font size or type to the news
story length.
Layout Designs

✓ The X Format
✓ The Curve Format
✓ The L Format
✓ The J Format
✓ The Umbrella Format

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