NEWSPAPERS Always remember It’s a business!
Dec 18, 2015
NEWSPAPERS
Always rememberIt’s a business!
Jobs
Publisher Editor-in-chief, or Managing Editor
Section Editors Layout Editor
Copy Editor or Copy Reader Reporters – General, Beat
Print Technicians
Publisher
The person or group who manages the business of the paper
Deal with Money
Manage facilities, people, supplies
Managing Editor
The person who coordinates all sections of the paper and organizes
the section editors
The person who has a general plan for the whole paper’s layout and
contents
Section Editors(sometimes also Layout Editor)
The person responsible for the content of 1 section of the paper
Examples: Local News, Sports, Arts, Business, Entertainment, Classifieds
Copy Editor
The person who reads articles for accuracy – spelling, grammar (and
sometimes facts)
Some papers have Fact Checkers also
Reporters
General Assignment Reporters go wherever they are told and usually
cover HOT newsExample: a fire or accident
Beat Reporters always cover the same events or area
Example: City Council Meetings
Print Technicians
Do the physical job of running the printing presses and getting the
papers out the door
Parts of a Newspaper
NEWS
FEATURES
ADVERTISING
NEWS Hard News: Factual accounts of important events – usually very recent – must be used
in a timely way.
Soft News: Stories that are not urgent –
usually featuring people, interviews, opinions – often not
time sensitive,
FEATURES
Human Interest Stories Background Stories
Information that is included regularly like advice columns, comics,
obituaries
ADVERTISING
Classified Ads – customers purchase – pay by letter, word or line
Business Ads – usually Display Ads which show a picture to advertise a product
Order of Layout
1st = Advertising WHY?
Everything else goes in the NEWSHOLE
2nd = Regular Features 3rd = Hard News Last = Soft News
Important Terms
Mast Head
Headline
By-line
Date line
Cut line / caption
Copy
Inverted Pyramid
Jump Line
Sidebar
Angle
Identify these:
Wire Services
Associated Press (AP) – USA multi-national non-profit news agency based in NYC. Owned
by contributing newspapers, TV and radio stations. Member news groups grant permission for their local stories
to be shared.
Reuters – Eng.
Remember
The Newspaper Industry is a business
Their primary goal is to make money
This can and does affect the content of the paper!
The End