Captions and catchlines definitely help in telling the story. It is true, according to a Chinese proverb that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” yet some pictures are not independent by themselves or are self-explanatory. Pictures that particularly lack background may not be capable...

  Editorials can be categorized according to their functions. Basically, all editorials comment on a certain issue, topic, subject matter ornews event, so editorials of comment are most common. The different types of editorials may interlap, as a single editorial may serve various purposes. Yet for...

1. Answer as many W’s as possible in the headline without making the headline appear kilometric. 2. The headline should not state something that is not included in the story. 3. Positive heads are preferable than negative ones. Examples: a. P’sinan team unable to win over NCR rookies (Negative) b....

1. Timeliness. Based on the idea that news is something you didn’t know before which is significant or interesting to a group of readers, news items are basically timely or immediate. In other words, items are fresh and new as usually indicated in the news by the use of words “today”...

1. News Feature. This is some kind of a news event but the story goes deeper than a news item as more background information and related details are presented and expounded on. 2. Character Sketch or Profile. This article features a person, popular or not, rich or poor, but has done something worth...

Frequently Asked Questions in News Writing Source: Secondary Schools Handbook in Campus Journalism By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito 1. What is a straight news? Answer: A straight news story as its name implies, is an article that reports about an event, incident or happening in a straight-forward manner,...

Tips in Feature Writing 1. Avoid Wordiness. If you can express your thoughts in one or a few words or phrases the better. This would make your feature story more profound and would avoid the “elementary” and running-round-the-bush effect. Prefer words or phrases that are featurized and concise....

Source: Secondary Schools Handbook in Campus Journalism By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito 1. Headlines are telegraphic or short cut, basically because space on newspapers is highly considered. So some words can be substituted by punctuation marks. Example 1: 800 mentors and students participated in the writing...

By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito 1. Answer crossword puzzles for fun. 2. Play word games like scrabble, text twist, word factory, and the like. 3. Write your diary or journal. 4. Compile new words learned and use them in context. 5. Engage in dictionary habit. Better still; read the thesaurus. 6. Read a lot...

Excerpts from a lecture by: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito School Administration and Management 1. Have a burning desire to continually learn. 2. Be an advocate of changes for the better (reforms) and continuous improvement. 3. Create teams, innovative activities to develop talents and achieve goals. 4. Set...