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!

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