Introduction To News

 

Exam Info

Paper 1 Section A (45 marks):

News and Online

• An in-depth study of online, social and participatory

AND

• An in-depth study of offline, print newspapers

Broadsheet Features:

• Aimed at A, B, C1
• Longer, more detailed articles
• Plain layout
• Intellectual
• Small font
• Lack of colour
• Formal language and serious stories
• Few pages on front page

Tabloid Features:

• Lots of pictures on front page
• Little writing
• Lots of colour
• Big Titles
• Advertisements
• Aimed at C2, D, E
• Puns and jokes in headlines

The market

Popular: The Sun, The Sun On Sunday, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Star Sunday

Mid- Market: Daily Mail, The Mail, Metro, Daily Express, Sunday Express, London Evening Standard.

Quality: The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, The Sunday Times, I, The Independent, FT