Up To Speed Journalism

Georgia Bold

Perpetua Titling

If you can instantly spot the difference between Georgia Bold and Perpetua Titling, there’s a fair chance you’re a sub-editor. But there’s more to subbing than a fondness for fonts. As a magazine sub or production journalist, it will be your job to polish the prose, create the double-page spreads and dream up the headlines.

At Up To Speed you take this course in your second term after you have honed your writing skills in the Reporting exam. You study the art of subbing alongside your work placements. We will teach you how to lay out pages in In-Design, but you will also devote time each week to learning the fundamentals of proof-reading, rewriting and design.

Assessment:

2-hour Exam:

1. • 350 word story trimmed to 300 words
   • A flight of three fillers, each of about 100 words, to be trimmed to about 70 words each
   • Listings of around 400 words to be trimmed by about five lines
   • Write a headline for an online story
   • Hard copy page to be proofed using basic subbing symbols

Coursework: Double-page spread using an appropriate mix of real-life stories, features, reviews, listings, fact files or info panels written by candidate or colleagues.

Syllabus:

The role of the sub-editor and production journalist

Desktop publishing

Subbing news

Subbing different types of stories

Subbing and proof-reading online material

Headline Writing

Typography

Pictures and captions

Proof-reading

Design