2. Newspaper article
• There are two types of newspaper article:
• Tabloids -are papers like the newspaper
‘The Sun’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘The Daily Mail’,
‘The Express’ and ‘The Star’.
• Broadsheets- are like the newspaper ‘The
Times’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Daily
Telegraph’.
3. Identifying the conventions of a
tabloid article.
• The tabloid has a headline that explain the topic. The headline is normally very bold and big in a
tabloid newspaper. The headline is very humours and informative majority of the time to the
public. Tabloid is very informal.
• There’s lots of pictures and the pictures are very informal, as some images on a tabloid paper are
very inappropriate. The pictures are normally relevant to the topic, there’s captions always used
next to the image which normally briefly explains what the image is.
• The paragraphs are short and easy to read, the first paragraph always keep the reader want to read
more. The paragraph sums up the story.
• There’s a by line were the author name is written on the paper, this tells the audience who wrote it
and normally the date. This is an conventions of the newspaper article.
• There’s column used in the newspaper article but they never use it on the front page.
• The tabloid article provides information mostly about gossip with people like celebrity.
• They have interviews with the celebrities so they so they can quote things of them and use it in the
text. They are very biased and can catch people attention very easily.
4. Identifying the conventions of a
Broadsheet article.
• Broadsheet are a bit more serious and informative than a tabloid
they normally talk about all the serious things that are going on.
• The headlines and subheadings are more serious and more formal.
They don't gossip about the celebrities very much.
• They have paragraphs that are short that start of very formal and
very serious. They provide more information than images.
• They go into detail with the important news story, they mostly talk
about the things that happening today for example the weather.
• They are less colourful the page is more black and white. Are often
known as the ‘quality press’ being more informing and formal in the
manner they convey information and news stories.
5. • Form: Newspaper article
• · Structure Paragraphs, columns
• · Content: News, current affairs, information,
facts, opinions, statistics
• · Technical conventions:
• · Mode of address: Formal, serious – depends
on the newspaper. Can be more informal if it
is a tabloid.
6. Identifying the web tabloid
conventions
• The tabloid website newspapers are less formal than the broadsheet, its mostly
gossip and scandal
• It can be downloaded on androids, they can go on live chat for each articles so
people can have a discussion about the article.
• There’s comment boxes at the bottom of each articles were people can feedback
on the article and talk about what they think about the article.
• They got a slide show of the main articles were the readers find it more
interesting. There’s tabs on stuff like showbiz, sports, weather were it leads them
to the page.
• They have a sharing button were people can share the article on place like twitter.
• The headline is very big and in the centre of the top of the page were it would
stand out more. There’s sometimes images in between the paragraphs
• Website like the daily mail have captions that explain what’s in the image, they
have side tabs that link to different articles. The top articles are always the latest
articles.
7. Identifying the web broadsheet
conventions
• A broadsheet website keep the page really plain and less out of the place. They
update the page daily with different kind of stories
• They have picture that suitable for the story and have a by-line of the name of the
author on the page.
• The page talks about all the current affairs and less of gossip. There apps that can
be downloaded on androids.
• There’s navigation bars that have different topics on it such as sports, politics,
weather.
• They have comment boxes on some of the article pages not all, were people can
comment there ideas.
• Its more social as they have hyperlinks to different pages to other pages.
• Some have videos on them for example the independent
• The headline of the article on the website sums up the stories and there’s no
column and there’s Bigger spaces between paragraphs
• There’s side boxes that have additional information
8. • Form: web Newspaper article
• · Structure Paragraphs,
• · Content: News, current affairs, information,
facts, opinions, statistics
• · Technical conventions:
• · Mode of address: Formal, serious – depends
on the newspaper. Can be more informal if it
is a tabloid.
