The saying upstairs: "The first edition is generally the most important part of a newspaper, and the manuscript under the headline is the most important, which must be very long and is the core of the whole newspaper" is incorrect.
The front page serves as a guide. The most important thing is to attract attention. Visually reflect the style of the newspaper. You need a good news photo. (To be completed by your student reporter) (Note; When typesetting, most of the selected photos should be cropped. Large areas of ceilings and floors, irrelevant content should be deleted without hesitation. Even photos involving interviews with people can be cut into faces. This is more difficult and requires a certain artistic "feeling". )
What you want to do is the inaugural issue, right?
Then there must be a "founding declaration" to explain why this publication should be run. what are you going to do？ What kind of publication will it eventually become? The main slogan should be based on your actual situation.
Our original class newspaper was called Acceleration, because we majored in journalism. At that time, we were sophomores, but we ran on the road first in our freshman year (there is a saying in our major that "news is on the road", which means reporters should be diligent and go out to report more. ) our sophomore year was "stimulated", so we decided to do an accelerated over on the road. (homophonic "just? Do what? It! ? "This also shows our determination. Then we asked the calligraphy teacher to write the title, flip the card with the camera, convert it into an electronic version, and then dig out the picture with software. Header production is complete.
Typesetting should learn to use professional typesetting software. WORD is not good, it is hard to say, and it is easy to deform. Introduce CDR and print it as a sample for proofreading. Printing can go directly to CDR format.
Typesetting is not a simple pile of words and pictures.
It is rare to put an article directly under the title. Can't be a long article. The manuscript of a newspaper should be controlled to about 800 words as far as possible, except in special circumstances, but most manuscripts should be about 800 words. Because it is very convenient for editors and saves time, you can design the board without reading the manuscript. Student reporters will also automatically delete those redundant words. Can improve the writing level.
Some good long manuscripts can be put on the front page, just put a lead, and then go to the back page.
The front page also serves as a guide. Please list the titles of newspaper articles under this guide. (The title of the article should not exceed 12, and there should be no punctuation in the title. Newspaper articles should be divided into columns. Generally, the layout of A3 can be divided into 3 to 4 columns. I've read many small campus newspapers, so it's inconvenient to read the articles directly in a frame. )
The news of the meeting should be as brief as possible. Copying the leader's speech is a waste of space. Nobody wants to see it.
Direction of the newspaper
Should I say the orientation of the newspaper? Campus newspapers generally reflect "colorful campus cultural life" and "record growth and touch you and me."
Another important content of starting a newspaper is the editorial policy. What kind of things and values are published, such as some complaining online articles, which can be used and which can't be used? Some technical articles, do you want to use them? How to use it and what form should it be replaced? How to accommodate "individuality and * * *"? These standards should be formulated before running a newspaper. It seems that you have different opinions because of your division of labor and cooperation. With the editorial policy, it is easy to judge. Of course, if you have a regular "editor-in-chief", it will be easy, and the newspaper will not look like a big face. Each layout should be different, but the style should be consistent and "harmonious". For example, a layout is comic style and a layout is Chinese painting style, which is not harmonious.
How big is the page of your newspaper, what paper to use, where to print it, how much to print it, the source of funds, and the personnel organization.
At that time, we printed eight editions and four editions of the newspaper, with 300 copies each. Because of repeated comparisons and putting in a good word with people, it only took 80 yuan? Yuan printing fee. Of course, we typeset and make plates ourselves, which saves a lot.
The biggest difficulty we encounter in running a newspaper is the low quality and quantity of manuscripts. How to solve it, we will discuss with the teacher and decide that publishing original manuscripts can get extra points, and pay the manuscript fee (800 words is about ten yuan, which comes from advertising, and half of the advertising fee is used as the "salary" of the students who pull back the advertisements. What's more, increase publicity and actively participate in and organize various activities in the name of "newspaper". Don't think that the college will be happy to fund your newspaper. It was fine at first, but then it was unhappy. Because running a newspaper requires a lot of money. If you want to operate for a long time, you must have advertising revenue. Of course, you have to make the newspaper look like a newspaper. Circulation should also impress merchants. Compared with the advertising cost of a party, the investment cost of running a newspaper is much smaller, but it is also expensive.
Finally, someone should be involved. At least one editor-in-chief (who is also an American editor) (who has a strong knowledge of writing and art), one or two editors (who are also proofreaders) and three or five student journalists. Remember that you don't need to find a large group of people. There are four or five people in a core, and it is also possible to mobilize others to contribute.
Good luck with your newspaper!