EXPLORING THE

FRONT PAGE
JOURNALISM 1- WEEK 3
• Every newspaper tries to give all the important news. Since
there is not enough room on the front page for every story,
the editors try to get in the most important stories. There is
usually still not enough room to complete every story. Long
stories are broken into two parts. At the end of the first part,
there is a turn to page . . . etc. The second part is jumped to
another page. It is called a jump story bearing a headline of
its own called jump head.
Nameplate- name of the
paper
 Top story or banner news-
the most important news story
• The pages of the most national dailies
have eight columns. High School papers
usually have five columns as prescribed by
the DECS for the purpose of the best
school paper contests.
 LOCAL NEWS
• Local News is news that took place inside the country. (This must not be
confused with provincial or regional news. Local News is concerned with what
is happening in the Philippines, for example, as a whole while provincial or
regional news usually give news concerning a more specific area.)
 FOREIGN NEWS
• Foreign News is news that took place outside the country. (This must not be
confused with Dateline News. Foreign News is that which concerns the global
community or that which happened outside the Philippines, for example, but the
information there in concerns the people in the Philippines – i.e. the release of
iPhone 5 or the rocket launch from North Korea).
 DATELINE NEWS
• Dateline news is a news story which is usually out-of-town. This doesn’t necessarily need to be
concerned with the reporting country but they are published for some informative and
entertainment purposes. Dateline News is usually introduce by a dateline stating the country the
place story was taken from, the date and the source of the material if it wasn't written originally
by the newspaper staff (i.e. Tokyo, Japan, October 19 – Tokyo News…).
WEATHER NEWS
• Weather News is usually a boxed
forecast/prediction from reliable
sources (usually mentioned).
Weather News includes the place
where a specific weather activity is
occurring, the temperature, wind
directions, velocities, alerts, etc.
Deeper news about the weather
(i.e. storm signals and
announcements, evacuation, relief
operations, retrieval operations and
search and rescue operation
coverage and the like) are
discussed as news stories.
INDEX
• Index: An Index is a slug line
indicating an important inside
page story and the page number
where it can be found. Indices
usually contain hottest issues and
stories in a particular area,
exclusive interviews, exclusive
coverage and the like).
RUNNING HEAD
• The running head is a
type of head having
two or more lines.
DECK/BANK
• A deck is a subordinate
headline or head which is
immediately placed below
its mother head to give
more information about it.
LEAD
• Lead refers to the
beginning of a news story.
This means that a lead
could be a word, a
phrase, a sentence or
even a paragraph.
COLUMN RULE
• Column Rules: Column rules
are vertical lines that indicate
the divisions of the columns.
In modern journalism, these
lines are substituted with a
space (a blank column rule).
Space column rules or more
formally known as sunken
rules are usually one em wide.
 BYLINE
• A byline appears at the beginning of an article
and gives the writer's name.
BOX STORY
• Any news material
enclosed by line rules is a
box. In this case, ears are
special types of boxes
because they are specially
named because of their
position.
PHOTOGRAPH/CUT
• The cut is a metal
plate bearing the
newspaper’s
illustration.
CAPTION
• A cutline is the text
accompanying photos
or other art works. The
cutline is commonly
known as caption. If
the text shows above
the photo, it is called
overline.
KICKER
• A kicker is a tagline
above but smaller than
the headline. It gives
stimulating but small
details about the
headline and this is why
it is also called teaser.
CREDIT LINE
• Credit Line: A credit line is a line
given as a pay of respect to the
source of the story or illustration
printed. This is done usually for
stories or illustrations imported or
borrowed from other printed
materials or people. The difference
of a byline from a credit line is that
a byline is usually a name,
signature or pseudonym of the
reporter within the newspaper staff
but a credit line is used for those
which are borrowed or imported.
Thus, foreign news and dateline
news often have credit lines.
 REFERENCE:
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