Newspaper Notes

3 Styles of Newspapers

News Magazine - Almost always have a glossy front and back cover. 8 and a half by 11. Kind of like a magazine. Might have some text, but no stories.

Tabloid - Newsprint and small. A tabloid will have 2 or less stories, sometimes even none. 

Broadsheets - Wide/Big and they, on average, have 3 to 4 stories. 

List of Elements

- Main headline (The Flag and included with it is the Folio.)

What appears in the Folio? School name, Newspaper Motto, Website, City and State, Volume and Issue number, Date, Teasers. 

- Categorized stories  

- Name of the author of the story, and their position. 

- Page locations 

Whats appears in the Caption? Caption head, Photographers name, Actual Caption.

- Headline 

- Sub Headline 

What is a jump? A story that starts one place, and jumps to another place.

What appears in a jump? Should have the page number and a little headline.

- Line between stories

- Graphics and who did the graphics. 

- Kicker (Kicks off the story.) 

- Table of contents 

Opinions Page

What appears in a Mast Head? Vertical Line, Organizations, Awards, Editorial Policy, Staff Box.

Editorial Policy

It is your power, it states that this is your open form of student expression. For example, if you felt you had too many tests and wanted to organize students to boycott school, you might get ISS. But if your on our newspaper staff and you were to write an opinions piece and you called a meeting after school hours, you could do that.

You would have to discuss it, but there is a chance it will be published. It doesn't go to anyone except Mr. Reeves and he doesn't even censor you. If you can convince him then you can run whatever you want to run. They avoid bias and/or favoritism.

In case someone wants to write a letter to the editor you can, because they have the address and email. 

Front Pages of The World

1.) My favorite Newspaper front page out of all of the newspaper front pages i looked at was Stars and Stripes - MidEast Edition. The reason i chose this one was because it didn't have too many words, which makes you want to look inside and buy it, also because the headlines are big and captivating, and it has a bold and major photo that was well taken in the front of it, drawing more attention to the newspaper. 

2.) My favorite headline on here is "Broken Trust" because it has that human interest news value in it and it makes me want to read it.

3.) The newspaper front page has 2 stories.

4.) All of the newspapers generally have big headline, and a big photo, which is what i think is what people want to see or know about. Then after that they mostly all have little stories, that don't give away too much, letting you know just enough to let you make the decision of if you want to buy it.

5.) Some things that change are the size of the stories, and how many. Most of them had a good amount  of them, but some of them had way too many. They were very overwhelming and distracting.

SLO Practice

PART 1:

Who - Lovisa the hungry dog.

What - Drooling - Because she is hungry.

Where - The streets.

When - Yesterday, April 14th on a Sunday Afternoon.

Why - Because she's lost and needs a new home.

How - Call the Humane Society at 777-7777 to adopt Lovisa.



Headline: Lovisa gets lost on the streets

Two Sentence Caption: On Sunday, April 14th, someone takes a picture of Lovisa on the road, drooling for food and looking for a new home. Lovisa was always playful and energetic until she got lost on the streets and was never found by her owners.

PART 2:

Rules of photography:
Simplicity/Background
Cropping
Rule of Thirds
Avoiding Mergers

News value
Human interest
Proximity
Timelines
Novelty

PART 3:

Lighting and Exposure

Exposed properly because there is no super dark or super light sides.
The lighting is coming from the side.

PART 4:

Lens Used:

Prime, because its lit well, it isn't zoomed in, and its not a wide picture.

PART 5:

How would you make it better?

I think that they should have shown more of the dog.
I think that they should have put more space between the dogs face.

Lenses and Photography Vocabulary

Lens Questions

I would use a telephoto lens to take a picture of a flower, or maybe some leaves on a tree. I might also use it to take a picture of someones eye, or something small/tiny. 

I would use a prime lens to take a picture of a birthday/birthday cake at a dimly lit party. I might also use it to take a picture of a dark street, or something at night.

I would use a wide-angle lens to take a picture of a field of some sort, whether it's a football field or soccer field. i might also use it to take a picture of the sky, or something large like a school of some sort.

Photography Vocabulary Definitions

Depth of Field (Shallow & Wide) - the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Shallow - A shallow depth of field would mean that only objects within a small distance in a scene would be focused; everything else would be out-of-focus. Deep - A deep depth of field would mean that a much larger range of objects at various distances would be in focus.

Light (Angle & Intensity) - The angle of light is where the light is coming from and how it bounces off of things in the photo. The intensity of light refers to how bright it is in the photo. 

Shadows - A dark area or shape produced by a someone or something between rays of light and a surface.

Diffusion - In photography it means the scatter of light.

Exposure - Is the amount of light collected by the sensor in your camera during a photo.

Aperture (f-stop) - The unit of measurement that defines the size of the opening in the lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or digital sensor.

Shutter Speed - Shutter speed is the length of time a cameras shutter is open.

ISO - How sensitive the image sensor is to the amount of light present. The higher the ISO, the more sensitive the image sensor and therefore the possibility to take pictures in low-light situations.

The 7 News Values

Timeliness – I chose this article because it happened yesterday (Wednesday) which is pretty close to today.  

Fatal train crash was apparent suicide

Proximity – I chose this article because it was the weather in central Austin, and weather is everywhere so it could be near Akins High School. 

High near 70 with some sun after early clouds

Prominence – I chose this article because Jay-Z is a well known person, so he has importance and that makes it "newsworthiness".

Jay-Z Responds in Song to Critics of Cuba Trip

Impact – I chose this article because massacres always have a big impact, whether it be on lives, thoughts, or emotions.

Massacre Reported as Syrian Forces Attack in South

Conflict – I chose this article because it is a conflict between sickness and surviving, it also is a conflict between chickens and humans. 


China's new bird flu sickens 38, kills 10

Human Interest – I chose this article because it has drama between both of the neighbors, and it involves a noise complaint, which could lead to more drama. 

First noise complaint filed over short-term rental

Novelty – I chose this article because it had an unusual and non common subject of death. 

Man tries to take photo of beaver; it kills him

My Yearbook Spread