Republic of the Philippines

CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY

Imus Campus
Cavite Civic Center Palico IV, Imus, Cavite
 (046) 471-66-07 / 4366584
www.cvsu-imus.edu.ph

Department of Languages and Mass Communication

JOUR 100 – NEWS EDITING AND PRODUCTION

MIDTERM

Newspaper Making

Topics covered:
1. Introduction to News Editing 3. Role of News Desk
2. Newspaper Organization Struc- 4. Copyreading 101
ture

Instructions:
 Your class will be divided into three. Each group should have
o Editor (EIC) who is accountable for all of the editorial content;
o Managing Editor who will supervise the publication and determines the impor-
tance of article;
o 3 News Reporters who will collect information about news stories and write an ar-
ticle;
o Chief Copy Editor who’s in charge of the news desk;
o 3 Copy Editors who will edit correct errors in grammar, fact, structure and style,
eliminate libelous and derogatory statements.
o Photo Editor/ Graphics Editor who will select the photos that the newspaper will
publish administer the graphics and illustrations of your newspaper.
 After assigning the designations of each members of the group, reporters should start
researching and collecting information.
 When the reporters are done, they should start writing their news article.
 The written news articles will then be given to the copy editors to be edited.
 Copy editors will also be assigned on writing headlines for each news article.
 From the copy editors, the new articles will be passed to the graphic editor who will also
be the one who will decide on which photos match the news article (if applicable).
 The graphic editor will now illustrate the newspaper and lay them out for printing.

Newspaper format:
o You will just submit a single (front) page of your newspaper where the articles are pub-
lished. You are free to add editorial section if the EIC and Graphic Editor permits.
o The newspaper should be in a A4 paper, with the font size of 8 or 9 (headlines/titles can
be a bit bigger), and Arial as the font style.
 o The staff of your newspaper should be included in the front page as well.

Republic of the Philippines

CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Imus Campus
Cavite Civic Center Palico IV, Imus, Cavite
 (046) 471-66-07 / 4366584
www.cvsu-imus.edu.ph

Department of Languages and Mass Communication

JOUR 100 – News Editing and Production

First Semester, A.Y. 2021 – 2022

Publication: Date:
Year and Section: Score:

Category 20 15 10 5
Layout – Headlines & All articles All articles Most articles Many articles
Captions have have have do not have
headlines that headlines that headlines that adequate
capture the accurately accurately headlines.
reader’s describe the describe the
attention and content. All content. Most
accurately graphics have graphics have
describe the captions. captions.
content. All
graphics have
captions that
adequately
describe the
people and
the action in
the graphic.
Layout – Columns Columns are Columns are Columns are Columns are
neatly typed neatly typed. typed. It is not neatly
in the A glance at easy to read, typed and is
“justified” type the but looks difficult to
style. A newspaper somewhat read.
glance at the makes you unprofessiona
newspaper think “fairly l.
makes you professional”
think it’s done
by a
 “professional”.
Who, What, When, All articles 90-99% of the 75-89% of the Less than
Where & How answered the articles articles 75% of the
5 W’s. answered the answered the articles
5 W’s. 5 W’s. answered the
5’Ws.
Articles – Interest The articles The articles The article The article
contain facts, contain facts, contains does not
figures, figures and/or some facts or contain facts
and/or word word choices figures but is or figures that
choices that that make the marginally might make it
make the articles interesting to interesting to
articles interesting to read. read.
exceptionally readers.
interesting to
readers.
Spelling and No spelling or No more than No more than Several
Proofreading grammar a couple of 5 spelling or spelling or
error after the spelling or grammar grammar
copy editors grammar errors remain errors remain
read and errors remain after copy after copy
correct the after the copy editors read editors read
articles. editors read and correct and correct
and correct the articles. the articles.
the articles.
Requirements All of the Almost all of At least 75% Less than
required the required of the 75% of the
content was content was required required
present. present. content was content was
present. present.
Total Points: Remarks:

Prepared by: Approved by :

Angela Mitzi N. Ramos Leslie Anne N. Gatdula

Instructor Officer-In-Charge