Comparison of Three Newspapers

Local: The Islington Gazette

Stories
Covers stories about the local area such as crimes, local politics, council agendas etc
Headlines
“Gypsy site BATTLE”
Language
The language used is a mixture of the informal and formal language that would be found in broadsheet and tabloid, an example of which is the word ‘Gypsy’ as this is more a slang word and wouldn’t be used in broadsheet newspapers.
Masthead
Like most papers, found across the top of the front page
Splash
The splash is larger than it is in national newspapers, this is because local newspapers tend to have a lot less stories to cover so to make up room they would make their articles longer, use a larger font, make their pictures bigger and include a lot more advertising.
Caption
Describe who is in a picture or what is going on in it
Adverts
Local newspapers have a lot more advertising than national papers, as stated earlier this is because they don’t have a lot of stories to publish and need to make up the space, also their funding is limited as they don’t make as much money off the papers as national papers, the adverts are mostly from local businesses.

Overview of Local Newspaper Webpages

Willesden and Brent Times 24

The homepage for the Willesden and Brent Times 24 is presented in a somewhat scattered manner. There is a masthead in the top left corner, however it is over shadowed by the animated advertisement next to it. Underneath the masthead there is a bar with links to other local newspaper sites, underneath this is a screen wide advertisement banner. On the left of the screen there is a menu with links to different sections of of the website, in the centre there are articles arranged in text bubbles, there is a head line on each followed by a small part of the article, the sections are arranged underneath each other and are categorised as News, Sport and Arts and Features.
The colour scheme is white background with Red, and black text, with colourful, animated advertisements for "London Fans Forum", "Arabian Nights", local businesses and other local newspapers.





Harrow Observer.co.uk:

The homepage for The Harrow Observer.co.uk is presented in a neat, simple layout. There is a masthead in the top left corner of "Harrow Observer.co.uk" to show readers that this site is part of the The Harrow Observer. Immediately beneath the masthead there is a guide bar which contains hotspots that take the user to whichever part of the site they desire (Hotspots are labelled as News, Sport, Communities, Videos & Pics, Lifestyle, Classifieds, Forums, Weather and Sitemap) . The overall colour theme of this page is a white background with either blue or red bars providing a background to the headers of different sections.
Underneath the guide bar and advertisements there is a flash slide show embedded which contains news about Harrow and the local area, the slide show automatically flicks through as to catch the readers eye.
Then there are headlines from other sections, but these are mainly just head lines that act as links to the story itself. The page also contains advertisements by Google, O2, Premier inn etc.

Anotating a News Papers Front Page

Newspaper Anotation

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