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News design is the process of arranging material on a newspaper page, according to editorial and graphical guidelines and goals. Main editorial goals include the ordering of news stories by order of importance, while graphical considerations include readability and balanced, unobtrusive incorporation of advertising .
In some countries, particular formats have associations with particular types of newspaper; for example, in the United Kingdom, there is a distinction between "tabloid" and "broadsheet" as references to newspaper content quality, which originates with the more popular newspapers using the tabloid format; hence "tabloid journalism".
In South Africa, the Bloemfontein-based daily newspaper Volksblad became the first serious broadsheet newspaper to switch to tabloid, but only on Saturdays. Despite the format being popular with its readers, the newspaper remains broadsheet on weekdays. This is also true of Pietermaritzburg's daily, The Witness in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
In many ways, USA Today breaks the traditional newspaper layout. Some examples of its divergence from tradition include using the left-hand quarter of each section as "reefers" (front-page paragraphs referring to stories on inside pages [49]), sometimes using sentence-length blurbs to describe stories inside. The lead reefer is the cover page ...
Comparison of some newspaper sizes with metric paper sizes. Approximate nominal dimensions are in millimetres. A soldier reading Pravda, a broadsheet newspaper, in 1941. A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages, typically of 22.5 inches (57 cm).
In graphic design, page layout is the arrangement of visual elements on a page. It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives. [1] The high-level page layout involves deciding on the overall arrangement of text and images, and possibly on the size or shape of the medium.
In a modular system ad sizes are represented by the amount of the total page the ad takes up. For example, 1/2 page, 1/4 page, 1/8 page, etc. This has been a popular system among many newspapers because it simplifies the layout process (i.e. less ad sizes to fit in newspaper) and makes pricing much easier for an advertiser to understand.
Newspaper stories that appear below the fold are said to be located "under the fold." Internet search query results appear much in the same way. Many web site optimization efforts may be exerted in an attempt to gain the highest "search indexing" or "ranking" placement (as close to first place as possible) for directed term(s) or phrase(s).