Campus Journalism - Newspaper Style

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July 16, 2012

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July 16, 2012 Vol.1 Issue 1


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Must have a nose for news

Must be able to tell the truth

Must not be afraid of people

Must be able to finish articles on time

Must be knowledgeable in style


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It is a distinctive form or a way of doing

something.

In journalism, it refers to the fact thatevery time a certain term appears in a

newspaper, they are spelled the same

way.

It also covers the use of abbreviations,

titles, punctuations and how time is

mentioned.



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Mr. Antonio Delgado

July 16, 2012

GJC Audio-Visual Room


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The numbers 1 9 are written in words

while the numbers 10 and above are

written in figures.Example:

nine students

13 children



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EXCEPTIONS:

dates, address: always in figures.

proper nouns: may be written infigures/words

beginning of sentence: always in words

events: 1st 9th is allowed



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Here in the Philippines, American English

is used, not British English.

Ex: color, not colour If a word has more than one accepted

spelling, the shortest one is preferred.

Ex:judgment, instead ofjudgementenrolment, instead ofenrollment



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The first letter of the sentence is always

capitalized.

Proper nouns are capitalized, commonnouns are not.

Ex: singer

Regine Velasquez



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Small letters are usually used for title or

position.

Ex: Dr. Noemi Villanueva, the president ofGJC, delivered the opening remarks.

Titles are capitalized when they appear

right before a name:

Ex: President Noemi Villanueva, Ph.D.



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Spell out Dept.,govt, and other

abbreviations.

The abbreviationsJr. and Sr. are allowedin names.

Remember:

Engr. Emmanuel Delgado;Engineer Delgado

12 Dimagiba St.; Dimagiba Street



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A title or position of a person may be

abbreviated if it appears before the name

but not if simply used in the sentence:Ex: Sen. Recto filed another taxation bill

yesterday.

The senator filed another taxation

bill yesterday.



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Acronyms are usuallywritten in capital

letters.

Example:

GJC



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When an acronym appears for the first

time in a news story, it is written after its

meaning and it is enclosed inparentheses.

Ex: University of the Philippines (UP)



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The first sentence of a paragraph is

indented.

In news stories, the rule is one paragraph,one sentence only.



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Check for errors in:

Tenses of Verbs

Subject-Verb Agreement

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

(agreement in gender and number)

Articles (a, an, the)



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Remember: he saidand not said he;

Aquino saidand not said Aquino

Remember: three-day training and notthree-days training.

Trained for three days and not

trained for three-day.



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It is used at the end of declarative and

imperative sentences.

It is used in abbreviations such as p.m.,a.m., Jr., Sr., Pres., Sen., Rep., Gov.,

Gen., Capt., Dr., Fr., Atty., Corp., and

Inc.

Acronyms of schools, organizations and

offices do not need periods.



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Use commas:

to separate the month and day from the

year.

to separate the street, barangay, town

and province in an address

to separate facts.Ex:Jolas Burayag, 17, sophomore BSIT

student



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Do not use commas:

to separate the abbreviation Jr., Sr., or III

from the name.

Ex: Emmanuel Delgado Jr.



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Use colons when presenting a series of

information and use semicolons to

separate components of the series.Ex. Elected officers of the Board of Elders

are: Dr. Arturo Guina, President; Atty.

Ferdinand Dumlao, Vice President; Dr.

Narciso V. Matienzo, Secretary; and Dr.

Poyen Pini, Treasurer.



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Use hyphen:

in most compound nouns

Ex: editor-in-chief, officer-in-charge

in fractions

Ex: two-thirds, three-fourths

in numerals

Ex: twenty-two, fifty-nine



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Quotation marks are used in direct

quotations. Indirect quotations do not

need them.Ex. I forgot it, he said.

He said he forgot it.

Periods and commas are written firstbefore closing quotation marks.

Ex. Lets go to SM, the boy said.



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Quotation marks are used to set off titles

of events, shows, movies, books, etc.

Ex. We watched The Titanic.Quotation marks are used to set off an

alias or nickname.

Ex. Ramon Bong Revilla JuniorJuan Chua also known as

BoySingkit



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Apostrophes are used in the possessive

form of the noun.

Ex. the teachers tablethe teachers meeting

In contractions of words

Ex. Im (am)youre (you are)

(Avoid using contractions except when

quoting sources)



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Watch out for jumbled letters, words and

paragraphs.

Delete editorializing words/phrases.

Ex. The very beautiful and intelligent

principal

The cops were right in arresting



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Check for redundancies (recurring

words/phrases/paragraphs, synonymous

or redundant terms).Ex. the concert the concert ended

at the back of the rear

advance planningasked a question

repeat again



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POINTERS:

5 Ws and 1 HQuotations

Details

One paragraph, one sentence


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