Flatplan

How it is used

Use for the overview of an entire issue; it allocates pages before or alongside detailed page design.

Example sentences

1. The flatplan reserves six pages for the investigation and places the interview near the back.

   The plan coordinates article placement across the whole issue.

2. When the advertisement moved, the production editor revised the flatplan.

   Changes to one allocation can affect the sequence of several pages.

Common collocations

• update the flatplan
• magazine flatplan
• page allocation on a flatplan

Related terms

• editorA journalist who decides what is published or broadcast and checks, corrects and improves other people's work; also the person in charge of a whole publication or section.
• front pageThe first page of a newspaper, where the most important stories and pictures of the day appear; also the home page of a news website.

More terms: Editing and the Newsroom

• newsroom
• deadline
• copy
• editor-in-chief
• copy editor
• news budget
• assignment desk
• news hole
• copy tasting
• source audit
• slug
• gatekeeping