Chapter 8: Planning the Campus Paper Flashcards
It informs its readers, is consistent in writing style and design, comes out on schedule, is ethical in its content, and serves the purpose of its community.
effective campus paper
Before starting a campus paper, the _ should have the abovementioned goals firmly in mind as he/she forms an editorial team. It is not just a matter of having good writers, there is also a need to sit down with the editorial team, formulate the paper’s vision-mission, and make a plan before actually getting started.
campus paper adviser
An _ should be formed from the best writers in the class.
editorial team
The first step for the editorial team that will determine the subeditors needed for the newsroom.
Decide the sections of the paper.
This will help the team decide the paper’s size, frequency, type of paper, and number of pages.
Knowing the school’s budget for the campus paper.
Based on experience, the most economical size is _, the size of two sheets of letter-sized bond paper.
11” x 17”
The most economical number of pages is divisible by?
4
A paper should have a minimum of?
eight (8) pages
A paper should have a minimum of eight (8) pages, but the ideal number is?
16 pages
Those with a bigger budget can opt for the _.
standard tabloid size
A printing press may try to convince you that the best paper is _, but actually glossy paper makes text harder to read and is more appropriate for magazines than newspapers.
coated-2-sides (C2S)
If you have enough budget, opt for _ or _ grams per square meter (gsm) bookpaper.
110 or 120 grams per square meter (gsm) bookpaper
It is also an option for those with low budget, although the price difference may be minimal.
Good-quality newsprint
After choosing the paper quality and size, the next thing to consider are the elements of design:
fonts, number of columns, color
A design draft is often referred to as a _.
dummy
It is the term used to denote the typeface of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and other symbols. The type of _ gives readers visual cues and tells them if this page has serious or light content.
Font
Font’s size is referred to as?
point
Font’s size is referred to as “point”, which is actually _ of an inch.
1/72 of an inch
The font size of the body text of a national newspaper is usually _ points.
9 or 10 points
Two basic types of fonts:
- “serif”, which has marks at the end of each stroke (e.g. Times New Roman)
- “sans serif”, which has none (e.g. Tahoma)
Most print designers prefer the serif fonts for _ because it is easier to read even in small print.
body text
Most print designers prefer the sans serif for _ because the former is easier to read even in small print.
headlines
Serious material, like news, should have a serious font such as _ or _.
Times New Roman or Garamond
Serious material, like news, should have a serious font such as Times New Roman or Garamond; while the literary or fun pages could experiment with new fonts such as:
Gigi, French Script, Rage Italic
The editorial team should decide on the following:
the type and size of fonts for the body text, headlines, and subheads of most of its pages
Banner stories (i.e., front-page headline) should have the biggest font, usually _.
40 points up
There should be standard sizes for fonts of less important stories, for instance, _ for next most important stories and _ for smaller stories.
32 points; 20 points
Ideally, there should be only a maximum of _ types of fonts in the serious pages.
three