Newspaper design notes

1. Two sizses of newspaper

• Broadsheet
• Tabloid.

   2. Jumps - when an article starts on the front page and continues on the inside.
   3. Every good newspaper has a flag.

• the flag can have a photo with its flag.

  4.folio- the folio includes the name of the city, the slogan, name of the section ,and page number.
  5. Headlines are a large font.

• Headlines are complete sentences. ( Without punctuation at the end)

  6. there are three parts to a caption.

• A caption head
• captions must be two sentences long
• the first sentence of the caption describes the action scene in the photo.
• the first sentence be written in present tense.
• the second sentence gives you background that you cant see in the photo.
• include photo credit- who took the photo.

  7. Byline- includes the name of the author and their postion.       
  8. A thin line between stories ... also known as a story divider.
  9. infographic - a graphic with information.

• it could be a chart or a nice little pie graph.

  10. the index is at the bottom of the front page.
  11. volume and issue number.
  12. journalistic decision making - where the stories go in the newspaper and ehats the most important storyy.