Guide in Creating a
School Newspaper
Newspaper for
High School
12x18in
5columns
.5 Margin Top & Bottom
Left & Right
With Default Gutter
2
Newspaper for
Elementary
9x12in
4columns
.5 Margin Top & Bottom
Left & Right
With Default Gutter
3
FRONT PAGE
✓ Nameplate
✓ Ears
✓ Banner
✓ Headline
✓ Deck
✓ Columns
✓ Column rule
✓ Index
✓ Folio
* In place of date, volume and issue number,
write your year and section, school year, and
quarter.
✓ Cutline and Creditline
REQUIEM FOR HEROES. Rescuers dig out of the muddy rubble
the bodies of a fireman, an engineer and a volunteer who died
trying to save the victims of a landslide at Sitio Buyagan in La
Trinidad, Benguet, on Friday. EV ESPIRITU/INQUIRER NORTHERN
LUZON
Byline
150 die in Benguet slide
Baby’s body in sack moves mayor to cry
By Delmar Cariño, Vincent Cabreza, Frank Cimatu
EDITORIAL PAGE
✓ Folio
(Write the school year,
quarter and page number
instead.)
✓ Editorial cartoon
✓ Editorial liner
• A short statement/
a quote/
a saying
• Written at the bottom
of the editorial page
• Drives home a message
EDITORIAL LINER
✓Letter to the editor
✓Masthead/
Editorial box
✓Editorial Proper
✓Editorial Cartoon
✓Editorial Column
• Personal opinion by the columnist himself
• May attack, teach, entertain, or appeal
Parts of a Feature Page
✓ Section’s name
✓ Folio
✓ Columns/ feature articles
✓ Byline
✓ Photos
✓ Captions
Characteristics of Feature
✓ Feminine appearance ( e.g. italics and
script types)
✓ Wider columns (usually 3 wide columns)
LAYOUTING
Layout Definitions
•Make-up or window dressing of a
page
•Arrangement of illustrations, texts and
graphics on a page to be printed
•Selection of font styles, sizes and
colors
Importance of Layout
•G i ve s p ro m i n e n c e t o t h e n e w s i n
proportion to its importance
•Makes the pages appear attractive
•Gives the paper a personality/individuality
of its own
•Makes the different contents easy to find
and read
Conceptual Model of An Excellent Layout
UNITY/
HARMONY
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BALANCE
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EMPHASIS
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PROPORTION
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Extraneous factors that harm an
excellent layout
✓ Tombstoning -placing two or more headlines on
approximately the same level specially if they
are of the same font size and type
H1 H2 H3
H4
*Put a cut /picture between columns; use different
font size and style (family font) for headlines.
✓ Bad breaks – breaking stories to the top of
columns.
H1
H3
H2
*The top of every column should have a
headline or a cut.
✓ Separating related stories and pictures
News H2
story(H
2)
Cut or
picture for
H2
✓ Gray areas or sea of gray
*Use fillers instead.
✓ Screaming headline – one that is too big for a
short or unimportant story
H2
H1 H3 *Use only the banner or
streamer structure for
the most important
headline.
H4
✓ Heavy tops ( Don’t make the page top heavy.)
H1 H2 H3
*Proportion texts and pictures.
✓ Fit them all
*Avoid many headlines of the same size on a page.
*There should only be 5- 7 headlines on the front
page.
✓ Placing small heads on rather long story
*This refers to headline font size.
*Proportion headline font size or type to the news
story length.
Layout Designs
✓ The X Format
✓ The Curve Format
✓ The L Format
✓ The J Format
✓ The Umbrella Format