News in a newspaper or in electronics and digital media go through a lot of designing processes before they are being distributed for mass consumption. News design is basically arranging and aligning contents in newspapers or e-news. It involves ordering of news contents, font sizes, colors, highlights, page layouts, graphical designs, photos, advertisements, segregation of news, and so on. The basic criteria of news design adhere to graphical and editorial goals and guidelines for enhanced and interesting presentation, readability and a non-interfering and balanced inclusion of advertisement.

With the advent of pagination and digital typesetting, news designs now monitor the inforgraphics, colors, typecast, typefaces, graphic design, photo sizes, headlines sizes, and the overall space occupation and news structure and distribution in newspapers.