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Survey yourclassmates oryour family tofind out which sec-tions of the news-paper are every-one’s favorites.Make a graph ofthe results. If you were going toadd a new section to the news-paper, what would it be? Why?Which section do you thinkyoung people read most often?
Go online to find out aboutnewspapers that have specialsections written for or by youngpeople. Write a report tellingwhat you learned about thesesections. Do you think they area good idea?
Go online to find out about thehistory of the printing press.Write a brief summary of whatyou learned.
NewspaperKnowledge
What is News?News is hard to define. One
definition says that something isnews if it has "the quality of beingsufficiently interesting to bereported in news bulletins." Ofcourse, that is a pretty broadarea. News might be anythingfrom a natural disaster to ahuman achievement or failure –or even something that is just soodd and funny it makes the news.
News also has been definedthis way:When dog bites man, it'snot news; when man bites dog, itis. Can you see the difference?Talk about it with your class oryour family.
As you read the newspaper,you might wonder why certainstories are in the news and whysome of those are on the frontpage. Each day, editors decidewhich stories to include andwhich to place on page one.
Know your newspaper.Get to know your newspaper
by going on a scavenger hunt tofind each of these items.Write thepage number on which you foundeach one.Indexpage ____________________A help-wanted adpage ____________________A photo of a politicianpage ____________________An example of good newspage ____________________A funny comic strippage ____________________A display ad for clothingpage ____________________The name of a foreign countrypage ____________________The weather reportpage ____________________
Stories get into the newspa-per for lots of different reasonsChoose a story from today's frontpage and analyze it for each ofthe following reasons.You maywant to do some Internetresearch to help you investigatefurther and answer each questionabout the story.Headline of your chosen story:____________________________________________________Timeliness: Is it happening rightnow?__________________________
__________________________Relevance: Is it of local interest?____________________________________________________Magnitude: Is it a story thataffects a great number of people?____________________________________________________Unexpectedness: Is it unusual, ordid it happen without warning?____________________________________________________Conflict: Does the story invoke amajor struggle?____________________________________________________Continuity: Is the story followingup on an earlier story?____________________________________________________Emotion: Are emotions such asfear, jealousy, love and hateinvolved?____________________________________________________Progress: Is it a story of newhope or achievement?____________________________________________________
Newspaper SectionsNo two newspapers are
exactly alike. A newspaperreflects its community.What thenewspaper looks like, then,depends on where it is and whatis important to its community. Thecommunity essentially “builds” itsnewspaper based on its values.
Sections vary from newspa-per to newspaper. Most newspa-pers have sections for local news,national news and internationalnews to tell readers what is cur-rently happening. Most newspa-pers have a features section thatinforms readers about the day-to-day life of the community. There,readers find human-interest sto-ries and information aboutupcoming events.While the newssections deal mostly with facts,the features section offers a per-spective beyond just the facts.
Most newspapers also have asports section, in which readerscan follow their favorite teamslocally and beyond.You might finda food section in your newspaper,with recipes as well as ads for
local supermarkets.All of these sections allow
readers to customize their news-paper reading experience. Theycan choose to read what intereststhem. The sections also giveadvertisers the power to reachthe audience they most want.Here’s an example. A 2006 reportfrom the Newspaper Associationof America (NAA) shows that ofwomen in the to 50 newspapermarkets, 86 percent read themain news section. But only 45percent of the women read thesports section. If you were pro-moting a product for women, thenwouldn’t you want to place yourad in the news section, wheremore women would be likely tosee it?
What do you think is the mostwidely read section of the news-paper? The same NAA reportreveals that it’s main news with86 percent of all adult readers,followed by local news with 83percent.
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Glossary of Terms
Printing and Deliveringthe NewsMost newspapers today usesome kind of offset printing.That means that the pageimage is etched onto a thinplate that is mounted on theprinting press. The inked imageis then transferred onto a rub-ber roller that sends the imageonto paper. Most inks aremade of vegetable oils, suchas soy.
Here is a glossary of newspaperwords and terms. How many examplesof these can you find in today's newspa-per?The Associated Press (AP) – a cooper-ative, worldwide newsgathering service.Assignment – any newsgathering taskgiven to a reporter.Banner – a headline stretching acrossthe top of a page.Beat – a reporter's regular assignment,such as a city hall beat or police beat, ora geographic area.Caption – text accompanying a photo orillustration; also call a cutline.Circulation – the total number of copiesof a publication distributed in one day.Classified advertising – ads arrangedaccording to the product or serviceadvertised.Display ad – advertising other than clas-sifieds.Ears – space at the top of the front pageon each side of the newspaper's namewhere weather news, an index to pagesor announcements of special featuresappear.Editorial – an article that expresses theopinion of the newspaper's editors.First Amendment – the first article ofthe Bill of Rights, guaranteeing U.S. resi-dents freedom of religion, speech, press,assembly and petition.Flag – the printed title of a newspaper atthe top of the front pageGutter – the space or margin betweenfacing pages, or the vertical spacebetween any two columns of print.Human interest story – a lighter storyas opposed to a "hard news" or "break-ing news" story.Index – the outline of the newspaper'scontents.
Jump – to continue a story from onepage to another.Kicker – small headline, often in italics.Letter to the editor – a letter in which areader expresses his or her views in thenewspaper.Masthead – a newspaper's state of own-ership, place of publication, executivepersonnel and other information.Newsprint – a grade of paper some-times made from recycled paper andwood pulp, used for printing newspapers.Obit – a biography of a recentlydeceased person; short for obituary.Op-ed – space for comment facing(opposite) the editorial page.Publisher – the chief executive of anewspaper.Put to bed – a printer's term meaningthat all the pages of an edition are com-pleted and the presses are ready to roll.Quotes – the portion of a story thatshows exactly what a source told thereporter.Review – a writer's critical evaluation ofan artistic event, such as a movie orplay.Scoop – an exclusive story or photo-graph.Sidebar – a secondary news story thatsupports or amplifies a major story.Subhead – a small, one-line headlineinserted in the body of a story.Tabloid – a newspaper of small pagesize.Tip – information that may lead to astory.United Press International (UPI) – aworldwide newsgathering service.Wire copy – editorial content suppliedby outside sources, transmitted across awire network.
Notable Newspaper Quotations
“The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listen-er must fit the broadcaster’s program.”— Kingman Brewster
“There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeplyinto themselves and their actions, and musical poetry isperhaps the most effective mirror available. Every news-paper headline is a potential song.”— Phil Ochs
“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper,and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make prop-er judgements about what is going on.”— Harry S. Truman
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have agovernment without newspapers, or newspapers withouta government, I should not hesitate a moment to preferthe latter.”— Thomas Jefferson