Newspaper Study Materials

Oh, the places you young journalists will go!

Newspaper Handouts and Powerpoints
Ethics of Reporting
basic terms
Parts of the Newspaper
Read All About It
News Elements
Responsibility as Journalists

What is news?
elements of news
ethics of reporting

Photography
photo basics
photo terms

Design
front page design
cobbing
Front Page News

Journalistic Style of  Writing
the inverted pyramid
The Inverted Pyramid

Interviewing
conducting interviews
writing an interview

Leads and Hooking the Reader
writing a lead

Caption Writing (cutlines)
caption writing

Writing Quotes
Writing Quotations

Headlines
headline rules
writing headlines
Headline Writing
Wacky Headlines

Types of news writing
Feature Writing
Feature Writing

Column Writing
column writing
Column Writing

Critical Reviews
writing reviews

Editorials and Commentaries
editorial writing
Editorial Writing

Copy Editing
commonly misspelled words
redundancy
Editing

Type
typography
tthe anatomy of type
Typography

Advertising
ad presentation
ads that sell
advertising terms

History of Freedom of the Press
A Newspaper Timeline
The First Newspapers in America
The First Amendment
Student Law and the Press
Tinker  vs. Des Moines
Bethel vs. Frasier
Hazelwood vs. Kuhlmeier
Famous Journalists
 

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Friday, July 30, 2010