Template Front Covers

Every magazine, and every issues tends to be layed out differently on the front page. So ive been looking at different layouts, and trying out some templates to see what looks good.

Generic Convention of Newspapers

Newspapers tend to keep to many generic conventions, especially local newspapers. Generic conventions can be many different things, it can be the way that the newspaper is written and the audience addressed or it can be the way it is layed out. Many of the generic conventions are the layout of the newspaper itself. Heres just a few features and generic conventions that all newspapers tend to follow;

Advertorial: an advertisment which is diguised as part of the editoral content.

Banner: front page headline which goes across the width of the page.

Brand Identity: all newspapers have there own style which ditinguishes one from another.

Byline: the name of the journalist who wrote the article or feature.

Cover lines: summaries the articles that are found inside.

Editorial: news or features written by journalists

Exclusives: promoted to the audience as only avaliable in thier newspaper.

Feature: longer then a news story, tends to have more individual information.

Gutter: space between pages in centre spread or between 2 columns.

Headline: main heading, biggest font, relates to the main story.

Masthead: title at the top of the of the front cover which identifies the newspaper

Strapline: headline in smaller font appearing over main headline

Local Newspaper Research

Harrogate Advertiser


Established in 1836
Weekly publication producing 52 issues a year
Yearly circulation figures of 28574
Its published every Friay
Circulation of around 11 towns, incluing Knaresborough, Harrogate,
Starbeck, Ripon, and York
Full page rate in £7244
Price is 90p
Target audience; people of Harrogate and surrounding villages and
towns.
Its published by a company called Ackrill Media Group, who also
publish 8 weekly papers across North and West Yorkshire, Ackrills average week circulaion is 35,097

This breakdown of content was taken from the Friday 11th of June issue.

Human Interest
l l l l l
Hard News
l l l l
Entertainment
l l l
Sport
l




Wakefield Express

Established in 1852
Weekly publication, producing 52 issues a year
Yearly circulation 33935
Published every Friday
Full page rate £2032
Price 90p
After 155 years of publication as a broardsheet it changed to a tabloid paper in March 2007
Target audience mid aged people of Wakefield and West Yorkshire
Published by Johnston Press Digital since 1985, who actually publish 18 daily newspapers, 300 weekly newspapers and 319 local websites linked to the newspapers to help extend the content of them.

This breakdown of content was taken from the Friday 11th June issue

Human Interest
l l
Hard News
l
Entertainment
l
Sport



Holyhead Anglesey Mail

Established 1881
Weekly publication producing 52 issues a year
Average issue readership 42,000
Published every Wednesday
Circulation is around Anglesey and Holyhead
Price is 77p. however some households get it delivered free through the post
Target audience; from a questionaire done by the newspaper itself we can see that 35-54 year olds are most likely to buy this newspaper.
Its published by Trinity Mirror North West and Wales based in Llandudno junction.
So although for some its a free sheet, a sizeable proportion of the circulation is sold through the news trade.

This breakdown of content is taken from the Wednesday 9th June issue.

Human Interest
l
Hard News
l l
Entertainment
l l l
Sport
l

Introduction

This task is a Newspaper task. At the end of this task i will of produced my own Newspaper magazine cover. We are looking at specifically Local Newspapers.
I will aim to produce the best, most realitic magazine possible. I will do this by a series of extesive research, looking into many local Newspapers and their generic conventions, to finally apply these to my magazine.
All my articles will be ones which i will produce, edit, and picyure myself.
I will log myprogresstion on here, starting from research through to production, and to finally mu end product and my evalutaion.