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Grading criteria

Editors

  • Totality of content
    • How many stories? How many story types?
    • Mainbar, Sidebar, Personality profile, Chart, Timeline, List, Column or analysis
  • Chunking and presentation
    • Possible strategies: Multiple pages, Bold text in strategic places, Subheads, Charts, Links, Pictures, Categories, Lists
  • Editing - spelling, grammar, clean copy
  • Headlines, subheads and summaries
  • Photo caption writing
  • Photo gallery production

Writers

  • Story types
    • Mainbar, Sidebar, Personality profile, Chart, Timeline, List, Column or analysis
  • Writing - news value and reporting judgment
    • Impact, Conflict, Currency, Prominence, Unusualness, Proximity and Timeliness
  • Reporting and story telling
    • Do you answer who, what, when, where, why, how and how much?
    • Does reader have questions after reading your stories?
    • What has the reader learned?
  • Writing - style and readability
  • Advance outline included?