The role of the Sub-editor 

• What makes a good Sub-editor 
• Good taste subbing 
• The sub-editing environment 
• The professional Sub at work 

News layout and design principles 

• Crafting the layout - how to design a layout for your newspaper 
• Layout tips and tricks for lively headings 
• Working with Writers and Designers 
• Effective scanning of words and images 

Structure of an effective news story 

• An editorial evolution 
• Broadcast news 
• Media model 
• The Sub-editor's role in news transformation 

Sub-editing II: check the facts 

• The value of checking 
• Establishing credibility 
• Facts and figures - finding the shortcuts 
• Your sub-editing toolkit 

Sub-editing for newspapers, magazines and TV 

• The modern print sub at work 
• Sub-editor's mandate 
• The art of proofreading 
• Various television formats 

Planning for publication or broadcast 

• Schedules and assignments 
• Making news - roles people play 
• Newsroom protocol 
• Editing a television news story 

Headlines, leading news and breaking news 

• The art of writing headlines 
• Leads for print and television 
• Scripting news leads in the electronic media 
• Increasing your work power with compelling leads 

Online sub-editing 

• The internet 
• Subbing on the web 
• Web research 
• Overcoming bad information 

Sub-editing I: house style 

• Exploring styles 
• Providing conventional standards 
• The great house style debate 
• Web styles 

Final copy; hot copy 

• Copy which sells newspapers and magazines 
• How television news copy holds an audience 
• Subbing ordinary text into attention-grabbing news and news features 
• Sourcing hot news 

Journalists, the media and the law 

• Newspaper law 
• Naming juvenile offenders and
  recognising sub judice 
• What is prima facie? 
• Freedom of speech and censorship