News design

News design is the process of arranging material on a newspaper page, according to editorial and graphical guidelines and goals.

The era of modern newspapers begins in the mid-nineteenth century, with the Industrial Revolution, and increased capacities for printing and distribution.

In the past, before digital pre-press pagination, designers used precise "lay out dummies" to direct the exact layout of elements for each page.

These prints in turn were "shot to negative" with a large format production camera —directly to steel-emulsion photographic plates.

Replacing several in-between steps in newspaper production, direct to plate pagination allowed for much more flexibility and precision than before.