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.