1. How many pages are there? ______ sections?________
2. How many pages are taken up by news____ business_____, sports_____, TV schedules_____, and feature stories_____?
3. What is the headline of the most important news story?
How many columns does it take? _____What percentage of the page does it take up?___ Does it have a photo?___
4. What is the headline of the second most important news story?
How many columns does it take?______ What percentage of the page does it take up?_____ Does it have a photo?_____
5. How many of the front page stories are international? _______ Domestic? _________
6. Besides news stories, what other special features found on the front page?
7. Study the front page and indicate examples of the the datelines?_____________
.....credit lines ____________________________________________________
....bylines ________________________________________________________
8. Where is the index? _________On what page do you find business news? _____ TV schedules?______ sports news?_____ editorials?_____ feature columns?_____ stock market information?_______
9. What types of reviews can you find? ____________________________________
10. On what page(s) do you find comics? ______How many are there? _____
11. On what page do you find classified ads? ____ What are the largest categories?______
12. On what page(s) do you find letters to the editor? ______How many are there?______
13. Look for examples of headlines with the following characteristics, and fill in the chart with the
page number, the headline, and the headline rewritten as a regular sentence.
a. a pronoun omitted:______ _________________________ _________________________
b. an article omitted: ______ _________________________ _________________________
c.. "to" and a verb: ______ ____________________ _______________________________
d. three headlines with abbreviations for names of countries or regions:
e. an abbreviation with an apostrophe and/or a period: _____ ______________ ____________
f.. three other abbreviations:
g. the name of a capital city used to refer to the government of that country: ____ _______ ______
h. three short words often used in headlinesi. "shock" or sensationalist headlines
14. Examples of wire services: __________ ____________ ___________ ____________
15. Find leads with the following information:
a. what, who, where, and whenb. what, who, where, and why
c. what, who, where, and how
16. Find a direct and an indirect quote.
a.
b.17. Find an editorial? What is the topic?
Is the topic of local, national, or international interest?
What is the editor's position on that issue?18. Fill out the chart below with information about the columns that appear in the paper.
Page Column ____ Headline ____ Topic_____ Author_____
a.
b.
c.
19. List the articles on the business page indicating which ones are international
20. What is the price of the Canadian loonie against the US dollar?_________
21. What is the Dow Jones average? ______22. Which of the movies in the movie ads have seen... or plan to see?
23.What subjects are covered in the advice column?______________________
24. What percentage of the sports stories are Canadian? ____ international? ____
25.What other news items or features in this paper did you find interesting.
How many one-page display ads?
Catchy ad slogans?
Favourite?
Most annoying?
Write ad headline
