Wednesday, July 9, 2008

World News

Erika Bernasor
Sri Kartika Pawitan
Angela Alexis Valera


  1. Name of Newspaper
    1. Corporate Name

* World News

    1. Editorial Address

* 578 Tomas Pinpin Street, Binondo, Manila, Philippines

    1. Phone Fax Website

· Tel. No.: (632) 241-0046 to 49, 241-3944, 242-9919

· Fax No.: (632) 242-9936, 2429938

· Website: worldnews.com.ph

The editor-in-chief of The World News newspaper is Wu Yong-Chuan. The newspaper does not have any other editors because they have a different system, which has editors for each of the sections (five to eight sections) found in their newspaper. These sections would consist of one editor, translators and reporters. The editors of the different sections would choose the most important news suitable in their respected division. If the news is from the Chinese agency, then they would just copy-paste it; but if the news came from other agencies, which usually write in English, then they would still have to bring it to their translator to convert it to Chinese. Once this is done, the editor would approve it and have the news typed (in Chinese), and the editor would have to proofread it after. The editor would also have to draft a layout, which would be submitted to the layout editor, who prints the dummy that would be approved by the editor.


World News has only nine reporters out of the 200 employees it has. In these 200 employees, two-thirds are part-time, while one-third are full-time. The newspaper’s correspondents, which are only three to four, are based in China. Their payments are based on the number of works they passed. On the other hand, there are 30 to 100 columnists, who are all part-timers. They would sometimes pass two to three works and would receive P300-P1000 as payments. The amount of the payments that the correspondents and columnists should receive is decided by the editor.

  1. sources: editor, circulation, production, advertising

Various news agencies, which have subscriptions, are the sources of World News. The most expensive agencies are the Agence France-Presse or the AFP which is found in France, and the AP found in America. They also get their news from Sinhua which is based in China, Central News Agency from Taiwan, China News Agency from Hong Kong, and Philippines News Agency from the Philippines. In addition to their sources, they also look at local websites which are for free, and at the official website of the office of the president. They also base their news on the reporters.

World News was launched in June 1, 1981 by Lucio Tan, together with a Filipino-Chinese Association as a partner. Back then, the general manager was Shi Tian-Lu. Now, it’s Wang Ming-Yuan who serves as the general manager. From the ownership of Lucio Tan, it was passed on to another management. The person who is now responsible for the newspaper company is Chen Hua-Yu. World News was launched as a community newspaper. It started as a legitimate source of information, never an underground one.

World News has a subscriber base of more than 107,000 and a pass-on readership of 6 per copy everyday. The number of copies printed by World News doesn’t vary on weekdays and weekends. It has a worldwide and overseas circulation of over 107,000 daily – 65,195 in Metro Manila, 38,005 in provinces, and 4,397 in the foreign areas (Hong Kong/China).

Along with the main newspaper which is the World News itself, it comes with a free value-added daily publication which is the Hong Kong based “Ta Kung Pao”. Another is a free “Overseas News of Fujian” newspaper from Mainland China every Monday. The last is a bimonthly news magazine for non-Chinese readers which is “Tulay”, and it is published every other Tuesday.

The printing and editorial is located under only one building. The only way that they are separated is by being located at different floors.

Page measurement

29.75 cm. x 54 cm. (9 columns x 54 cm) per page, minimum 20 pages per issue

About 10 years ago, when computers were not yet widely used, World News had about 10-20 hired typists. And when computers were started to be used by many, the typists decreased to a number of about 5-6 persons. These typists were paid with the rate of 30 pesos for 1,000 words.

They used electronic machines to layout the pages of their newspaper. Stripping is one of the things which World News doesn’t accept, along with bleeds, reductions, and overlays.

World News is the first and only Chinese newspaper equipped with two units of state-of-the-art Kodak and Agfa Printing technology, capable of simplifying plate making & processing, for faster and accurate newspaper printouts, enabling early delivery in the market. Right now, it is the only Chinese newspaper heavily investing and updating in printing machines. With its excellent reproduction owing to its high-grade newsprint and full digital equipment by ECRM Imaging Systems which makes plate-making and processing simple, fast, easy and accurate resulting in sharp images and vivid colors, no wonder World News has been on the lead as the No. 1 Chinese newspaper of choice by most advertisers for the past several years now

For the news which are rarely subjected to changes like showbiz and business news, these are printed at around 1pm. They are the first ones to be printed. For the important sections, specifically the local news, these news are needed to be freshly served. Because these news are subject to changes, they are printed at around 3 in the morning. World News is a newspaper with its own fully computerized system for both black & white and color printing facilities, with full color pages in four sections.

World news is the first and only Chinese newspaper that is equipped with two unites of KODAK & AGFA PRINTING TECHNOLOGY, this makes plate-making and processing simple, fast, easy and accurate. World News has the most number of advertisers among all the Chinese newspapers.

Advertising Rates:

BASIC BLACK & WHITE: Front Page : Php 195 per col/cm

Back Page : Php 140 per col/cm

Inside Page : Php 124 per col/cm

Center spread : 20% Surcharge

Ear Ad, front page, main section : Php 195 per col/cm

Ear Ad, front page, 2nd section : Php 140 per col/cm

Ear Ad, front page, 3rd section : Php 124 per col/cm

COLOR SURCHARGES: Plus 1 Color : 20% of basic rate

Plus 2 Colors : 40% of basic rate

Plus 3 Colors : 80% of basic rate

Deadlines for advertisers:

Reservation - 1 week before publication

Material(s) - 3 days before publication

Cancellation - 3 working days before publication

Payments are made 60 days after publication by the advertising agencies. When you are a direct advertiser, you have to pay upon reservation. 15% of the rate is the standard agency commission to accredited advertising agencies recognized by the United Print Media Group (UPMG).


Sources:

Advertising & Marketing Director: Mr. Joseph Ong
Mr. Chee Chark Ng
Ms. Cherilyn Ngo










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