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Background..

What is newsworthiness? What is worth reading and what isn't? It would be something that would create an impact on the individual reading your story.

A local newspaper would be a coverage of events, interests or business for the nearby community; for example "The News" that cover the Portsmouth area.

The logo they use in this newspaper is a flagship, which shows Portsmouth in its best light because of the navy-base and past victories. In this particular article titled "In your dreams" presents an image of a football stadium, which is often discussed about in a local newspaper in society today; Portsmouth football club.

The News

The audience this newspaper sells for is generally for the 16+ as it involves that particular age group and mostly above. It includes praise for local charities or achievements individuals gain within their daily lives but it also shows that the community can have a voice and control over what could happen in the future. It is often different to national tabloids and more formal papers as I find that the language is much more formal than tabloids; however in comparison to the Guardian - it shows more personality.

An example of this is from their home page website - http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/ - As you can see this segment illustrates colour and choice for different readers. The images are eye-catching and the font is simple and bold; the use of colour emits a sense of personality that will interest the possible reader.

The ABC's of this newspaper is 45, 175 copies per issue sold everyday.

What is human interest?

This can be a story that discusses an individual or a group of people - a reader would want to engage with this particular type of article because they can relate to the story in an emotional way. It can present people's problems, concerns or achievements in a manner that would interest the potential reader as sympathetic or perhaps a sense of belonging.

What is Ethos?

Attitudes, values, ideologies, belief systems; your mindset or culture has an influence on your actions. Within newspapers these can vary among the type of paper you would purchase. But they can express different views and perceptives within telling their stories - The Sun for example is classed as infotainment, and will shout out facts however twist them slightly to give it a more dramatic aspect. E.g "My Life Was Stolen On Facebook". At home we have the local The News paper delivered most days of the week and often I discover that the majority of stories that make the front page is about how people or systems are making an impact of Portsmouth. Linking into Ethos I can see how a local community have similar values and ideologies; football, the rise of talented youth's or latest situations about the NavyBase .. The News.

What is the 'inverted triangle'?

This is a metaphor used by journalists to illustrate the placing of the most important facts first within a text. Common methods used by imagining a triangle upside down - the top part with the most substantial important inforb

I have also learned that on the right side of the paper hold stories on sports, advertisement and/or another story. These layouts can vary however, like on one day they had a larger advertisement stretching down the right with less room for other information. On the bottom of this paper and others I've found that they hold advertisements, on sofa companies or a taxi service etc. Anything that promotes a local company within the area. Stories are bordered with dark blue, their themes colour from their logo also. There font never changes and it is always simply bolded with no patterns of whether they're targeting different audiences or not.

I like how it's laid out, probably because I'm used to reading this paper everyday but it's laid out clearly and I can often out clearly where the pages are e.g. when they put 'page 23.' into italics.

I had noticed some changes throughout some certain important to Portsmouth, for example when the Navy ships were de-commisioned they covered the whole of the paper so there was no adverstisement. This would certainly catch the attention of Portsmouth readers as this concerns their history and Portsmouth tradition. Apart from these aspects the layout is colourful and exciting, this paper attracts a lot of citizens in the community; I have noticed this because I work in a super market and distribute the papers in the mornings, these sell very quickly and we order a lot in too!