COLLABORATIVE

DESKTOP
PUBLISHING
GUIDELINES PRESSCON

OUTPUT CONTENT
 The competition in collaborative
publishing is designed to encourage
TEAMWORK among campus
journalists and simulate the
workplace of an editorial department
of a publishing house
 PARTICIPANTS
Each participating school,
district, division, or region
shall organize a team of
seven members (contestants)
who shall not be competing
in any individual contest.
PARTICIPANTS
Participants must basically
possess the character of
being CONFIDENT,
COOPERATIVE and
CURIOUS
PARTICIPANTS
News Writer
Editorial writer
Feature Writer
Sports Writer
Photo Journalist
Layout artist
Cartoonist
 PARTICIPANTS
There will one team for
English and another for
Filipino, both at the
elementary and secondary
levels
 PARTICIPANTS

All contestants are

required to attend an
orientation before the
actual competition
 mechanics
The entire duration of the
contest will run for 4 hours
which includes data
gathering, layouting and
editing
 Logistics
Each team will be required to
bring 4 laptops installed with
either PAGEMAKER or INDESIGN
and PHOTOSHOP for the
secondary and MS PUBLISHER
for the elementary so as to layout
the group’s final output.
 Logistics
Mobile phones and other
electronic gadgets shall not be
allowed except for the digital
cameras and laptops with
disabled internet connection.
 Logistics
Photojournalists may
use either point and shoot
camera or DSLR. But the it
will still be upon the
decision of the judges
 What to prepare?
• 6 laptops

Per
• 4 DSLR Cameras
• 4 flash drives
• 2 printers

TEAM
• 3 extension cords
• Card reader
• Inkjet paper
• Writing materials
• Stapler / tape
 Output
Each group must produce
a four-page publication that
contains the following pages
/ sections
 Output
Each group will be required to
convert the output into PDF format
and submit it to the contest
committee. Contestants should
ensure that there are no identifying
marks about their school, district,
division or region.
 Output
The output must be in A4
size. Each page must contain AT
LEAST THREE ARTICLES.
There must be at least 12
stories in the entire publication.
 Common Problems

• Lacking articles
• Stories are shallow
• Some details are invented
• Contestants are not aware
of the rules
 MINI PRESS CON

This serves as one of the

most vital role in the
contest itself
 MINI PRESS CON
It will serve as the basis
for the actual writing of
editorial, feature and
news articles.
 MINI PRESS CON
A video of sports event
will be shown to the sports
writers. There are also
instances that sports
writers watch an actual
game / play. This will be
their basis in writing their
articles.
 Therefore……
Since there is a presscon,
there must also be
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And speaking of question..

It is the EXTREME
duty of every writer to
foster CONFIDENCE in
asking questions of
different angles……
And speaking of question..

It is the EXTREME
duty of every writer to
foster CONFIDENCE in
asking questions of
different angles……
Tips is asking questions..

1.Ask questions which

are answerable by
YES or NO for the
contents of news and
editorial.
 Example

“Will there be an increase in

the price of basic
commodities this coming
rainy season?”
You can actually formulate a sentence
from your own question.

According to the Secretary of

Department of Trade and
Industry, there will be an
increase in the price of basic
commodities this coming rainy
days.
 Example

“Tumaas po ba ang
bahagdan ng mga
turistang dumating sa
Pilipinas sa nakalipas
na 2 taon?”
 You can actually construct a
sentence from your own question.

Ayon sa tagapagsalita ng
Department of Tourism, tumaas ang
bahagdan ng mga turistang
dumating sa Pilipinas sa nakalipas
na dalawang taon.
 FEATURE

Always look the

perfect ANGLE
 FEATURE

Always look the

perfect ANGLE
Collaborative Publishing
Layout and Page Design
 Layouting and Page Design
Collaborative Publishing
Layout is one of the
CRITERIA
Greatest
Fundamentals
of Page Design..
30%
In Collaborative
Publishing it covers
70% almost 30 percent of
the total score
Layout Page Detail
Elements of a Newspaper
• Masthead- Details of the publisher, place of
publication, editorial staff and information about
the newspaper, generally placed on the editorial
page.
• Flag- The printed title (i.e., name and logo) of a
newspaper at the top of the front page.
• Folio- Newspaper name, date and page number
that appear at the top of each page.
Elements of a Newspaper
• Fold – name used to literally mean the line caused
by where a printed newspaper was folded over.
Above the fold is generally used to refer to the top
half of the page of broadsheet newspapers.
• Dateline - the words at the beginning of a news
article that tell when and where the story was
written.
Elements of a Newspaper
• News article - a story about an event that has just
taken place.
• Feature article - a detailed report on a person, an
issue, or an event
• Headlines - brief description of the story
• Banner - a headline stretching across the top of a
page.
• Photographs - the main illustration of the news
• Cutlines - tells the reader what is going on in the
photo, the names of persons in the frame and the
photographers name
Elements of a Newspaper
• Subhead - an additional summary printed beneath
the headline in smaller, but still large font as a way
of both clarifying the headline and as a way of
leading the reader into the story.
• Byline - beneath the subhead (if there is one) is
usually the byline that lists the name of the writer
or organization that prepared the story.
Elements of a Newspaper
• Pullquotes - interesting quotes from the story that
can be understood without reading the story, but
make the reader want to
• Mugshots - tightly cropped photos of a person's
head that are used to identify the main players in
the article
• Breakout boxes - similar to sidebars but contain
information from the story that calls the reader to
action, such as the time and location of an event
being reported on
The Text or Copy
• Keep target audience in mind when choosing type
• Generally, set body type in 9,10,or 11 point type,
use 8 point type for captions, and set headlines in
bold
• Headlines should be in a type most appropriate for
the style of document
K.I.S.S.
• Edit stories to be as lean as possible. For example,
if quantitative information will also be published in
a graphic, consider dropping the figures from the
story.
Headlines
• Provide a quick summary of a story or event.
• Call attention on a page to a particular story.
• Set the tone of how a reader should approach a
story.
• Say what’s new about a story.
• Through their size, headlines indicate the story’s
importance.
• Give information in layers.
Photographs
• Photos add emotional depth that is difficult to
reproduce in text.
• They provide documentary, or visual proof, for the
reader that an event happened.
• They can help to explain a complicated subject.
Other tips oh Photographs
• Don’t put a picture at the end of a story; put
pictures level with or above the story beginning

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Other tips on Photographs
• The middle of a column is not a good place for a
picture
• It is a physical block; readers may not jump it

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Other tips on Photographs
• If you do put a picture in the middle column, it
should be at the top

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Other tips on Photographs
• Pictures from different stories should NOT be
placed right next to each other

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Page Design Basics
• Readers start at the upper left hand corner, read
from left to right, and turn the page when they
reach bottom right hand corner
• This pattern is called the “reader diagonal”
According to a US study
• Readers process photographs 75 percent of the
time
• Readers process headlines 56 percent of the time.
• Text is processed only 25 percent of the time.
• Larger photos attract more readers – pictures 3
columns or wider are processed 92 percent of the
time.
• Mug shots are processed less than half of the time.
• Informational graphics are read 73 percent of the
time.
Principles of Design
• Balance
• Proximity / Unity
• Alignment
• Repetition / Consistency
• Contrast
• Emphasis
• White Space
• Movement
Do’s and Don’ts
• Avoid Tombstoning
• Avoid bad breaks
• Avoid separating related stories and pictures
• Avoid putting texts on busy pictures
• Avoid heavy gray areas
• Avoid using small types in long stories
Do’s and Don’ts
• Avoid screaming banner headlines
• Avoid making the top heavy
• Avoid many headlines of the same size in the same
page
• Avoid placing small heads on long stories
• Keep your stories to 6 to 10 only
• Whitespaces are your friend
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