Newspaper Design

Figure 8-5.—Formats of ship and station newspapers. program and have a good graphics file and a large selection of type fonts from which to choose. NEWSPAPER FORMATS LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Recognize the types of formats of ship or station newspapers. The three formats used in ship and station newspapers are full format, tabloid and magazine. These formats are shown in figure 8-5 and are described in the following text. FULL FORMAT A full-format (also known as broadsheet) newspaper is one that measures 16 or 17 inches wide and 21 to 22 inches deep. A fill-format newspaper can be made to have five columns, six columns, seven and one-half columns, eight columns or nine columns. TABLOID A tabloid newspaper is about half the size of a full-format newspaper. It measures 10 to 12 inches wide and 14 to 18 inches deep. A tabloid format newspaper can have two, three, four, five, five and one-half and six columns. MAGAZINE A magazine-format (also known as compact) newspaper is about half the size of a tabloid newspaper. It measures 7 to 8 inches wide and 10 to 11 inches deep. It can be made to have one column, two columns and three columns. NEWSPAPER DESIGN LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Detail the techniques used in ship or station newspaper design and any specific considerations, respectively. Other important considerations (beyond the news gathering, news writing and copy editing aspects covered in the preceding chapters) are the techniques for putting the material together so that your paper emphasizes what is important. You will also need to know what makes an attractive appearance and draws and holds the reader’s eye. All of this is done through good layout and makeup designed to achieve the best overall appearance and style of the publication and to allow the reader to obtain the maximum information in the shortest time. Layout is the planning of the position and page that each piece of copy or art will occupy in your publication. This includes your choosing the styles and sizes of headlines desired, the kinds and sizes of type to be used and deciding how to use them, and indicating these plans on the layout sheets. Makeup is normally the execution of that layout by the publisher (the compositor), although sometimes the terms layout and makeup are used interchangeably. For instance, the name “makeup editor” is used on some newspapers instead of “layout editor.” THE DUMMY Indicating on the layout sheet where each element will be placed (sometimes called dummying or roughing in) may be done as each segment of material is forwarded to the publisher. Some publishers will even give you rough proofs of galley type, headlines and art and let you make a paste-up dummy on a layout sheet. Paste-up dummies ensure a high degree of accuracy in page makeup because they give the publisher a better 8 -6