Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Scopes of Journalism
• Written – newspaper, magazines, newsletters
• Oral – radio
• Visual – TV, Live broadcast
Circular Letter no. 34 - 1st significant regulation concerning HS Paper / Campus Papers
Requirements:
• Credible Adviser
• Sufficient Finances
• Printer which produces good quality paper
News – Factual, truthful, unbiased, interesting to the public, involves persons and events; literature in a hurry;
Oral/Written report of past, present future events
Elements of News
• Conflict • Drama
• Immediacy timeliness • Romance and adventure
• Proximity or nearness • Oddity or unusualness
• Prominence • Sex
• Significance • Progress
• Names • Animals
• Numbers • Emotion
Types of News stories
A. Scope or Origin
• Local news – events take place within the place locality
• National news – within the country
• Foreign news – outside the country
• Dateline – news preceded by the date and place of origin where it was written of filed
B. Chronology or Sequence
• Advance or anticipated – published before its occurrence; sometimes called DOPE
• Spot news – gathered and reported on the spot
• Coverage news – written from a given beat; covered by respected reporters
• Follow-up lines – a sequel to the previous story having a new lead of its own
C. Structure
• Straight News – consists of facts given straight without embellishment; uses the summary lead
• News feature – based on facts but it entertains more than it informs, uses suspended interest structure
(narrative)
• Single Feature or one incident story – deals with an isolated event. A single fact is featured in the lead
• Several Featured/multiple-angled or composite story – several facts are included in the lead
D. Treatment
• Fact story – plain composition forth a single situation or a series of closely related facts that inform
• Animal story – a narrative of actions involving not mere simple facts but also dramatic events, testimony of
witnesses, description of persons and events, as well as explanatory data
• Quote story – speeches, statements, letters, and interviews when reported
• Speech Report – written from a public address, talks, and speeches
• Interview story – news report written from an interview
E. Minor Forms
• News brief – short item of news interest written like a telegraph message giving mainly the result of details
• News Bulletin – similar to the lead of a straight news story
• News featurette – short news feature usually used as filler
• Flash – a bulletin that conveys the first word of an event
F. Content
• Routine story – celebrations, enrollment, graduation, election
• Police reports
• Science News
• Developmental news
Lead – introduction wherein every news story begins that answers the 5 W’s and one H.
Kinds of lead
• conventional or summary lead
Kinds: Who lead, what lead, why lead, where lead, when lead, and how lead
• grammatical beginning lead
1. Prepositional Phrase lead
2. Infinitive phase live
3. participal phrase lead
4. gerundial phrase lead
5. clause lead
• Novelty lead
1. Astonisher lead – interjection , exclamatory
2. contrast lead – extremes , opposites
3. epigram lead – opens with common verses, etc
4. picture lead – creating a mental image
5. background lead – describes the setting
6. descriptive lead – few descriptive words
7. parody lead – parody of a well known song, poem, lines, etc
8. punch lead – short forceful word or expression
9. one word lead – self explanatory
10. quotation lead – direct words
11. question lead – answer to a question which is the basis of the news story
Gathering news
Sources of news
• Beats – backbone of news coverage which include school orgs, offices, departments,
bulletin boards
• Printed materials – school calendars, bulletins, athletic schedules
• Tips from resources
• Press release/ Press con
• Future book – record of whole year activities
• An alert from stand-by reporters
Headlines (reasons)
• enable readers to get a guide summary of news highlights
• choose the news the reader wants to read
• to grade and organize news
• to make newspapers attractive
Structure of Headlines
• Flush left
• Drop Line
• Inverted Pyramid
• Hanging indention
• Cross line
• Boxed Headline
• Jumped Story
Punctuation
• No period
• Uses a comma or semicolon instead of ‘and’
• Single quotation mark, when there are quotations
• Follow general news of punctuation