newspaper notes -

types of newspapers

• broadsheets (quality tabloids ) - the guardian , the times ,the daily telegraphy, the I ,the financial times
• tabloid - the sun , daily star
• mid market newspaper - daily mail , daily express
• local newspaper -the Essex chronical
• freesheets - metro
• Sunday newspaper - the observer , Sunday times , mail on Sunday

mid market tabloid

• typography - dramatic headlines in large bold uppercases font (like a tabloid ) sometimes is called a black top
• traditional British news values - daily mail with the royal family
• headlines can explore moral panic - NHS knife crimes weather
• uses high imact tabloid  style headlines but more text than tabloid
• direct informal mood of address
• use of pronouns to implied shared beliefs
• meant to be more subjective than objective
• cross between broadsheet and tabloid , soft and hard news

soft news - celebrity gossip , sport entertainment , fashion art and culture and human interest
hard news - politics business and the economy industry technology science war and conflict health and education

broadsheets

• text to image ratio is much higher more in depth
• sophisticated formal language
• objective / balanced news
• largely hard  news
• larger format smaller typography
• main sotry small letters more words

news value

c u p p t u n e

continuity - stories that always / keep  going on  eg Brexit
unambiguous - easy to understand
personalisation - human intertest / real people
proximity - close to home eg Manchester bombing
threshold -bigger impact and reach of story
unexpectedness - shocking/ out of the ordinary stories
negativity - if it bleeds it leads bad news is more interesting
elite people / places - important people / nations  eh Russia , china

newspaper vocabulary

teenage pregnancy

fruitella advert

newspaper language

This is a broadsheet that fits this title because it has formal language on the front of the first page . It is describing about the Brexit news and how that it can cost £66bn a year . Brexit should be one of the top storeys to be based on the front cover as its the main focus right now for Britain . This is a serious topic and therefore fits the broadsheet perceptive . This is about politics finance and other international news that you probably would not find as much on the front cover n things like red top tabloids . The front cover is in bold black writing to stand out however the other topics on the front cover are not as bold or as dark as the main focus . You can tell that this is a upper class reader because from the topics based .

mid market tabloids 1
typography - dramatic headlines in large bold upper case font  sometimes called a black top

traditional British news values - see daily mail and British royal mail family

headlines can explore moral panics nhs / knife crime / weather

still use a high impact tabloid style headline but higher ratio of text to photography than a tabloid

mid market tabloids 2

direct informal mode of address

use of pronouns "we" and "you" to imply shared beliefs and value

more subjective than objective language emotive representation
cross between a braodsheet and a tabliod
soft news and hard news

soft news 
celebrity gossip
sport 
entertainment news 
fashion news 
art and culture

hard news
politics
business and economy 
industry 
technology 
education 
health