Thursday, March 27, 2014

Introduction to Newspapers

2 sizes of Newspapers
Broad Sheet-tall, folds in middle both ways
Tabloid-like a magazine.

Front pages
Broad sheets-usually 4-5 stories/articles per front page
photos, headlines, sub-headlines, title, date, teasers (on top), captions.

Jumps-occur when an article starts on one page and ends on another. Example: continues on page 10
Flag-name of newspaper
Folio-reference info
Headlines are complete sentences
attention grabber-text in italics under dominant photo.
By line-name and title. ("title"= staff reporter, editor, etc.)
Stop: Black square or other symbol used at the end of an article to show that the story has ended.
Kicker-tag that tells you what story is about, DIFFERENT FROM HEADLINE.
Info graphic - picture with info

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