Media Upload: Newspaper Markup

Now that we know more about the tools we will be using, it will be helpful to also know the specific elements of a newsletter or newspaper. These are some key terms worth knowing:

• Masthead
• Headlines
• Deck
• Subhead
• Bylines
• Body text
• Photo cutline
• Pull quote
• Dividers
• Jump Line

I go over these terms and show you where they correspond on the page in this video below:

This short assignment is to grab any newspaper and see if you can locate all of these elements. Take a photo of the marked up newspaper and submit it below either by uploading the photo, doing a short video, or by putting it in a blog post. If you decide to go the blog post route, give you blog post the tag “Newspaper Markup” and submit the blog post's full URL. Here’s an example of a front page that displays all the elements: