Elements of a Newspaper

One of our assignments for boot camp week was to mark up any newspaper we could find and identify the major elements that go into designing a newspaper. For this assignment we had to identify the following elements: masthead, headline, deck, subhead, byline, body text, divider line, photo cutline, subhead, and jumpline.

I picked up a copy of my university’s newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily, because it was free and easily accessible to me. Most of the mentioned elements I was able to find on the front page. I did have to go to page 2 to identify a pull quote. Here are some pictures of my markup so you can get an idea of the elements of a newspaper or newsletter.