{"id":3611,"date":"2023-10-23T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/?page_id=3611"},"modified":"2023-10-23T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T17:34:45","slug":"newspaper-design-checklist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/newspaper-design-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper design checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Assemble your stories and photos.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>You should have final edits for all your stories and a good selection of photos and \/ or other art.<\/li>\n
  2. Which stories are most important<\/strong> and which are human interest and somewhat less important?<\/li>\n
  3. Choose the dominant photo<\/strong> for the page. It should be something strong and eye-catching.\u00a0 Anchor it near the top.\u00a0 Every page should have a dominant photo.\u00a0 If your most important story has no photo, do you have any “wild” or standalone feature photos that can be used?\u00a0 Faces in photos should be at least the size of a US quarter.<\/li>\n
  4. Chose secondary art <\/strong>for other stories.\u00a0 Move these toward the edges so they dont butt up against the dominant photo, or other headlines.\u00a0 But don’t put art at the bottom of story.
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    Once the elements are ready, you’ll want to sketch out a design to follow.\u00a0 You can do this using dummies or just the images themselves in InDesign.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n

  5. Plan a modular design:\u00a0<\/strong> The page should be dynamically balanced, with large photos at the top and a variety of story placements.\u00a0 All stories should be shaped like rectangles, without “doglegs” or irregular shapes. Readers should see multiple points of entry and a mix of news and features, with\u00a0 about one-third art and\u00a0 photos?<\/li>\n
  6. Design sequence:\u00a0<\/strong> (Vertical layout)\u00a0 Photo, cutline, headline, text.<\/li>\n
  7. Dollar bill rule:\u00a0<\/strong> Did you remember the “dollar bill” rule? (No more than one dollar bill’s length between art \/ photos \/ headlines. The idea is to keep from filling a page only with text.)<\/li>\n
  8. Directionality:<\/strong> Does all the art face the the appropriate story?<\/li>\n
  9. Unity:\u00a0 <\/strong>Are all the story elements close to each other?<\/li>\n
  10. Avoid trapped white space:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 White spaces are important in the design. They should separate stories and larger bits should bleed off to the sides.
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    Now fill in the headlines and story text.<\/em><\/li>\n

  11. Write the headlines,<\/strong> with the largest at the top and smallest towards the bottom.\u00a0 Headlines should cover all columns of text. (Avoid raw wraps). Use three deck headlines for one column, two decks for two columns, and only one deck headline for three or more columns.\u00a0 Avoid writing stilted, jargon-filled, verb-free headlines.\u00a0 Look out for bad splits and awful juxtapositions. Are any of the headlines butting together?\u00a0 In that case, do you need to box one of the stories?<\/li>\n
  12. Insert story text:\u00a0 <\/strong>Text width should be no wider than 20 picas (3.3 inches). and not narrower than 10 picas (1.6 inches).\u00a0 Gutters should be uniform and no more than one pica.<\/li>\n
  13. Balanced Design<\/strong> — Step back and look at the page. Is it more or less balanced?\u00a0 Does anything seem out of place.?<\/li>\n
  14. Double check headline, cutline, byline spellings.<\/strong> Some of the worst mistakes happen because they are so obvious no one thinks to look for them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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