CAMPUS JOURNALISM

PARTS OF A NEWSPAPER

Front Page
Editorial Page
Feature Page
Literary Page
Sports Page

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
Babys body in sack moves mayor to cry
By Delmar Cario, 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

Characteristics of an Editorial Page

Dignified and formal appearance

Small masthead or editorial box
Larger types for editorial proper
Masculine appearance (not the italic
or the script type)

FEATURE PAGE

Article Topics

Arts and leisure

Religion
Entertainment
Comics
Reviews

Parts of a Feature Page

Sections name

Folio

Columns/ feature articles

Byline

Photos

Captions

Characteristics of Feature and

Literary Pages

Feminine appearance ( e.g. italics

and script types)

Wider columns (usually 3 wide

columns)

LITERARY PAGE
Article Types:

Poems

Short story

LAYOUTING

Layouting is dressing up a window.

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
Gives prominence to the news in
proportion to its importance
Makes the pages appear attractive
Gives
the
paper
personality/individuality of its own

Makes the different contents easy to

find and read

Conceptual Model of An
Excellent Layout

Factors of an Excellent Layout

Proportion
Definition: It deals with the ratio of one
part to another and of the parts to the
whole.
Example: Pictures must be sized properly
to keep up with other shapes on the page.
Dont: Square cuts are undesirable.
Do: Length of stories must be considered.
A long story may ruin the proportion of the
page. A jump story is better than a poorly
proportioned page.

Unity (Harmony)
Definition: It is the agreement between
parts.
Example: The content of every page/double
page must blend as a harmonious unit.
Dont: No one part of the page should
overshadow another.
Do: The headlines should complement each
other and the pictures should not distract
the eyes too much from the type.

Balance
Definition/ Description: Visual units on
both sides are not identical but are in
positions so equated to produce a felt
equilibrium.

Emphasis
Description: It involves the differentiation
between the more important and the less
important.
Example: News/articles must be
displayed according to importance.
Do: The news value of every story must
determine to what page it should find
print, its position on the page, and the
style and size of its headline.

Contrast
It is the blending of units as
one.

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 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
story
(H2)
Cut
or
pict
ure
for
H2

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

H4

*Use only the

banner or streamer
structure for the
most important
headline.

Heavy tops ( Dont 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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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/print/
editorialpages/index.html
Editorial page pictures. Retrieved date October 10, 2009 ,
from http://blog.publish2.com/images/2009/09/NewsTribune-Opinion-Page.png.
Feature page articles. Retrieved October 12, 2009,
from www.teletronic.co.uk/tvt63ab5.html
Fetalvero, Eddie G.. (Sept. 11-12, 2003). Layouting a newspaper: A lecture delivered
during the
Echo-seminar Workshop of The Harrow. RSC Library.

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Letter to the editor.Retrieved
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