Photographers love large images. These suggestions
give our friends on the photo team a chance to shine.
Top story is usually used only once in one of the column splitter columns. It should be selected on the basis of newsworthiness, but it helps to have an excellent image to accompany the story.
This is a top story on a double column and should be used at the top of a page -- front, PREMIERE, PULSE or NEWS. The headline was rewritten to fit and a horizontal line was used at the bottom of the Teaser copy.
This is the CSS
to be used at the end of the copy. When the story is moved out of the Top Story position, be sure to take out the CSS.
This combination arrangement works well when you have a story and a video. This video shows what can be done with a little research and a feature approach. It combines excellent visuals with the interviewee telling his story. This is something to be replicated in future issues.
This is what the Top Story back looks like.
The video was linked in the subtitle of the story and looked like this in the Workflow:
And this is what the link looked like online in blue:
I think this video is the best I've seen on The Ranger Online in quite awhile. It moves nicely with narration by the artist. It presents a human interest story and captures the skills involved in making the instrument. Bravo, Riley. I hope we can find more of these in the spring semester. This is the kind of thing online publications do best.
Here are some general suggestions about possible videos for the spring semester. Have your staff look into their beats to find specific people to interview.
So, The Ranger Online will have eight issues again in the spring. Is that correct? Look for eight video subjects. Individuals who can be interviewed and who can tell their story. These can be students, staff, faculty, alumni and administrators.
Here are some general suggestions about possible videos for the spring semester. Have your staff look into their beats to find specific people to interview.
So, The Ranger Online will have eight issues again in the spring. Is that correct? Look for eight video subjects. Individuals who can be interviewed and who can tell their story. These can be students, staff, faculty, alumni and administrators.
- Sports: Runners, skaters, shooters, coaches, boxers, wrestlers, wheelchair athletes, handball players, et al.
- The arts: artists, poets, dancers, drag queens, photographers, potters, sculptors et al.
- Politicians, actors, speakers, et al.
This is a great attraction for users of the website. It involves motion and includes regular students doing regular things on campus. It can be used on PREMIERE and PULSE if there are enough photos during the week from activities that are included in those sections. Sometimes a photographer will have several photos for a single story. This would be a good opportunity to take one of the photos and include it in this arrangement. It should contain at least three photos.
The PREMIERE page contains a Top Story at the top (amazing) with a video, a column splitter with a Top Story on the left and five regular stories on the right. The ad on the far right has been used to promote events in Loftin and in this case the music events for the week. Movietone and Music Calendar are added free features for users' convenience.
This is what PREMIERE looks like.
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Here is a list of college publication websites that may have something to offer The Ranger Online.
Vermont Cynic is College Publisher
The Collegian
The Ithacan
The Minnesota Daily
Notre Dame Observer is College Publisher
The Shorthorn