Friday, March 4, 2016

Other High School Newspapers

1. My favorite newspaper front page is The Tiger Print because the large image really caught my attention. Something about a large, dominant picture on the front page of a newspaper really interests me. I also love the color choices of this front page, with the white text, teal background, and in the picture it's black and white with a splash of pink.
2. Just like my favorite newspaper front page, the cover that actually caught my attention was the same newspaper, the Tiger Print. It's something to do with the color choices and the topic of the leading story. Again, the dominant photo really caught my eye.
3. My favorite headline, the only headline, was "Tipping the Scale: Female students discuss participation in male-dominated classes" because of how relevant the story is to me. I can relate to the story without even reading it. I'm a girl and have experiences of my own that relate to this story topic.
4. There's one story, but it's just the headline.
5. I noticed that in these high school newspaper front covers, most of them have a larger photo that takes up most to all of the page, larger than newspapers around the world. The text is larger, words are minimal, and in my opinion, they are all more unique and diverse from each other.
6. Things that are different about these newspapers is definitely the amount of creativity or diversity of these papers. Some have stuck to the generic page with stories and lots of words with minimal pictures, and others have done the opposite. Another difference is the size of the titles/name of newspaper. Some are just larger than the headlines, while others (especially "Craze" take up nearly the entire front page.
7. These newspapers are definitely different than those around the world. The school newspapers, like explained before, have varying title sizes and larger pictures, while newspapers around the world have more words and stories, along with minimal pictures.

Terms:

Broadsheet: "The Lonestar Dispatch", "highlights", and "The View".
Tabloid: "Washingtonian", "tj Today", and "The Review".
NewsMagazine: "Beak N' Eye", "Odyssey", and "The Tiger Print".

Definitions:

Headlines - The words/heading at the top of a newspaper.
Subheadlines - The words/heading given to a subsection of a newspaper.
Lines - A printed line of text accompanying a news story, article, or something like an author's name.
Boxes - A small part of the page shaded in a different color.
Photos - The images on a newspaper.
Teaser - A "sneak peek" of what the newspaper is going to provide [of a story].
Flag - The name of a newspaper as it's displayed on the first page (also called nameplate)
Folios - The text at the top of the inside page that gives the newspaper's name, date and page number.
Captions - The text next to/below a picture that describes what is happening in the photo.
Stories - The bodies of text in a newspaper that supply most of the information (the body of the paper).
Bylines - The reporter's name that's usually at the beginning of the story.
Jumps - When a story is too large to fit on one page, so it's directed to continue on another page. The text that's continued on another page is the jump.
Story dividers - The lines that break up stories, images, etc.
Screens - A pattern of tiny dots used to create gray areas (when you screen a photo, you turn it into a halftone).
Infographics - The extra information on a page that contains graphs, polls, etc.
Masthead/staff box - A block of information often printed on the editorial page that contains staff names and publication data.

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