Subeditor
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The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of a sub-editor in news selection, editing, and page making. Key tasks include selecting news reports and photographs, correcting errors, ensuring factual accuracy, writing headlines, and finalizing the layout of the page. The sub-editor must collaborate with the chief sub-editor/news editor and manage the overall presentation of news content.
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Subeditor
- 1. Role and Responsibilities of a Sub-editor
- 3. •1 • Select news reports to go on the designated page in consultation with the Chief Sub-Editor / News Editor
- 4. •2 • Select Photographs to go on the designated page in consultation with the Chief Sub-Editor / News Editor
- 5. Editing
- 6. •1 • Remove spelling mistakes and grammar errors
- 7. •2 • Check names, designations, dates etc to ensure that the copy is factually accurate
- 8. •3 • Ensure that the copy is not defamatory
- 9. •4 • Identify gaps in copy • Ask Reporter to provide missing information
- 10. •5 • Rewrite badly written copy
- 11. •6 • Club copy, that is join copy received from two different sources
- 12. •7 • Write headlines
- 13. •8 • Decide news value and display
- 14. Photo Editing
- 15. •1 • Select photographs
- 16. •2 • Edit photographs • Crop pictures • Digitally enhance pictures
- 17. •3 • Write captions
- 18. Page making
- 19. •1 • Decide layout based on news value
- 20. • 2 • Place edited photographs/captions on page • Place illustrations on page • Place edited reports on page • Adjust word count
- 21. •3 • Proof read print ready page to ensure that therea are no mistakes in headlines / captions / text jumps
- 22. Role of Sub Editor • News selection • Picture selection 1 • Copy Editig • Write Headlines 2 • Decide news display • Make page 3
- 23. Thank You