Types of Newspapers

Local Newspaper

Local newspapers contain some national and international news, but focus on fairly local news topics in detail. Local newspapers are usually based around towns, cities or groups of villages.

The local newspaper targets most of the people in that town as it involves information and news about that town which would be of interest to the residents of that town.
When creating my local newspaper, I will follow the conventions of local newspapers in order for it to be recognised by my target market and include relevant content that will be of interest to the people of that area.

Regional Newpapers

Regional Newspapers contain some national and international news, but focus on news relating to a specific area of the country.

Regional newspapers target people of the region that the newspaper is about as it contains information, events and news about the specific town and also country.





National Newspapers

A National newspaper covers news across the whole country, together with international news.

Target group

National newspapers target majority of the whole country and are mostly tabloids as they include sensational stories to entertain people as well as serious topics. 



Types of Newspapers

TABLOID

  

A tabloid covers all national and international news and often contains a certain amount of more 'gossipy' or scandalous news items, or more personal stories. There are no precise dimensions of the tabloid newspaper unlike the broadsheet.

This is an example of a British tabloid:

 

The Daily Mirror was the first tabloid newspaper in Britain. In 1934, the paper re-launched leaving its middle class readership in favour of a mass audience of mainly working -class readers. The content of the news was over simplified and was more sensational as it interested a maximum number of people.The Daily Mirror represented a significant shift in the way newspapers packaged the news.

The features of a tabloid contain murder stories in detail, readers' fantasies of events such as the Royal Wedding, horoscopes, information about celebrities, fashion trends and more entertaining topics.

Possible target audience

Here are examples of the possible target audience for a tabloid newspaper:





Types of newspapers

BROADSHEETS

This is an example of a British broadsheet:

  

-A Broadsheet is the largest type of newspaper. It covers all national and news and is often serious and formal.
They are vertically longer than horizontal and are typically 22 inches / 559 millimetres or more.
In the 17th century in England, Broadsheets were the best way to spread news and came out weekly or regularly. They were developed after the British placed tax on newspapers based on the number of pages although outside Britain, the broadsheet developed for reasons such as style and authority.
The purpose of a broadsheet was for posting royal acts and official notes. Eventually people started to use broadsheets as a source of political activism such as printing speeches.

There are two version of a broadsheet newspaper:
- Full Broadsheet which is typically folded in half so that it forms four pages.
- Half Broadsheet which is an inside page that is not folded vertically and jut includes a front and back.

Connotations
In countries such as Australia, Canada, UK and the US, the broadsheets are perceived to be more intellectual in content rather than tabloids, as the greater size examines stories in more depth and has less information about celebrity material.
Broadsheets display two or more stories with the most important at the top of the page.

The possible target group of a broadsheet newspaper is likely to be business people who are educated and interested in business and government affairs.

Here are examples of the target group that a broadsheet aims at:

Newspapers

Newspapers

A newspaper is a publication containing news of events, articles, advertising and what's happening in the world.
It is printed on inexpensive, low grade paper such as newsprint.


The History of Newspapers

The first newspaper to be printed in England was around 1702 however, newspapers became more common in the late 19th century.
In the 18th and 19th century stamp duty which was tax was charged on newspapers which made them expensive, but in 1855, the stamp duty was abolished and became cheaper and much more common.
In Britain, the first tabloid paper, the Daily Graphic was published in 1890, and became the first British newspaper to print a photo.
In 1986, the first colour newspaper in Britain was published and in 1990, The Press Complaints Commission was created which was an independent body which dealt with complaints from the members of the public about editorial content.
In 1999, a free newspaper called the metro was published and is now found in UK urban centres.

In the 20th century, newspapers became much more common and Fleet Street was the centre of the British newspaper industry. However, newspaper owners moved away from Fleet Street as computer technology replaced the original labour- intensive methods of printing.

Introduction

For my coursework in A2, I will show a process of planning and research in order to create the first two pages of a local newspaper together with two other options which will be:

- A poster for the newspaper
- A radio advertisement for the newspaper

I decided to choose this option as judging on my previous media coursework which was to create a video, in my opinion was not created to a high standard because of the camera used. I think that I will also enjoy creating a newspaper and a radio advertisement as I am more interested in these fields.