Photjournalism
Newspaper Design
Typography, Headlines and Infographs
Yearbooks
Magazines
100

A person takes pictures for News and magazines. 

What is a photojournalist?

100

A layer in a grouping of headlines.

What is a deck?

100

A unit of measure. There are twelve points in a pica, or 72 points to the inch.

What is a point?

100

Usually located at the bottom outside corner of each page and may include words describing the content of the page and/or graphic elements that reinforce the theme, in addition to a page number

What is a Folio?

100

A magazine that includes prose and poetry, as well as feature stories, editorials, art reviews and student surveys.

What is a creative arts magazine?

200

The selection and Arrangement of the elements in a phota.

What is composition

200

A half-sized newspaper broadsheet what today is considered a full-sized newspaper.

What is a Tabliod?

200
  • The physical process of assembling the newspaper page, either electronically or with glue or wax on a full-size paste-up board.

What is a paste-up?

200

Any two facing pages in a publication.

What is a double-page spread?

200

A design concept in which all elements are arranged in a pinwheel fashion, clustered around a central focal point.

What is a mosaic concept of design?

300

The lens opening that admits controlled amounts of light into a camera. Its size is regulated by an iris diaphragm and expressed as an f-stop.

What is the aperture?

300

A visual element that draws a reader into the page or story. Examples include pictures, headlines, art, subheads, maps, boxes and other graphic devices. 


What is an entry point?

300

A newspaper’s flag, labels, and column heads, as well as other consistent graphic devices, are used throughout to create a personality.

What is a identity system?

300

A technical description of a book as a product.

What is a colophon?

300

The basis for constructing a page layout. A column is the standard width for copy chosen for a particular yearbook section or magazine.

What is a column?

400

A measure of a film’s sensitivity to light, measured on a scale set by the American Standards Association.

What is film speed

400

The copy for a story and related photos or infographics.

What is a story package?

400

The art of choosing and arranging letters in a pleasing and appropriate manner.

What is Typography?

400

A page-by-page plan of a yearbook that shows the proposed content of each page.

What is a ladder?

400

Things that must be included in a double-page spread, including photos, a headline, body copy, cutlines and planned white space.

What are elements of a spread?

500

Calculating what the new dimensions (height and width) of a photograph will be after it has been enlarged or reduced.

What is sizing?

500

A label is used to identify special items such as news briefs or columns.

What is a standing headline?

500

A special kind of tracking that brings pairs of letters closer together to prevent unsightly gaps?

What is kerning?

500

A special section of a yearbook that is set aside for special topics or subject matter.

What is a Mini-Mag?

500

To run a picture off the edge of the page.

What is a bleed?