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.

1. Role and Responsibilities
of a Sub-editor

2. News Selection

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