Thursday 14 November 2019

Convention in news

The metro:

Metro front page
mid market tabloid paper

The metro is a formal mid market tabloid who targets the middle market audience. They give a mix of hard and soft news which includes news of information and entertainment.
They use a traditional serif masthead and often capitalise their banner headlines.
The metro is usually more opinionated than a normal quality press and the front pages are dominated by headlines and images.


The Sun:

The Sun front page

Red top tabloid paper:

A typical tabloid paper such has The Sun usually has a red top. So for example The Sun has a red background. They are normally informal and they only speak about soft news.
Their headlines (often a banner) are in bold, capitalised in sans-sarif fonts and the Sun's title ins bold masthead in sans-sarif fonts which is white on red.
They target the downmarket audience and offer (soft) news as a form of entertainment. E.G. Celebrity gossip, human interest stories.

The Financial times:

FT front page

Broadsheet:

The Financial Times are a broadsheet news paper. This means they use formal language and only speak about hard news such as politics, finance, international news. They typical use traditional mastheads in serif fonts, often black and white. Their headlines in serif font are capitalised as in a sentence. The front pages are always dominated copy

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