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Copyreading Exercise

This document provides printer's directions for formatting a newspaper article. It specifies the font sizes and styles to use for the lead, body text, and headlines. It also notes that the numbers and fonts should be adjusted based on any contest directions. The document asks the copy editor to provide a headline, slug, and other necessary technical directions for the provided article text. It provides blank spaces to fill in this additional formatting information.

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Copyreading Exercise

This document provides printer's directions for formatting a newspaper article. It specifies the font sizes and styles to use for the lead, body text, and headlines. It also notes that the numbers and fonts should be adjusted based on any contest directions. The document asks the copy editor to provide a headline, slug, and other necessary technical directions for the provided article text. It provides blank spaces to fill in this additional formatting information.

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GENERAL PRINTER’S DIRECTION

Lead: 24 ems-14 TNR-bold


Body: 12 ems-10 TNR
Headline: 3-28Bb-Rom, encircled and single, double or triple underlined depending on the
number of decks used
Note: Adjust numbers and font style accordingly based on contest direction

You are Manuel Lopez of The Freeman. Copyread the article by employing the appropriate
copyreading marks. Provide a headline and other necessary technical printer’s direction.
Slug:______________________ Lead:___________
Newspaper:____________________ Body:_____________
Editor’s Name: _________________
Date:_________________________

______________________________________
2-20Bb-Rom

2 children were killed yeaterday when the M-79 grenade they were toying
with exploded inside their house in barangay Upper bala in Magsaysay,
Davao
del sur

Senior Insp. Dave mejia police chief, said the grenade was
found by the children’s father in the farm he was tilling about five years ago
kept kept it inside their house.
The children, identified in a police report as Digmin Bacalso 10 and his
sister Lowelyn, 5, died from
sharpnel wounds in different parts of their body when the grenade
exploded.
Upper Bala was a former battleground of the military and communist
rebels.

Police investigators said the eagle could be a


Victim of hunting activity in the area.

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