Brief 4: Message Delivery- Newspapers

Yesterday, we got briefed on studio brief 4 all about message delivery. We need to create a body of research in response to a story that we need to find in tomorrows news paper. 

Yesterday we looked into types of newspaper and how they differ.

Types of newpaper

• Broadsheet 
• Tabloid 
• Regional 
• Local
• Specific papers
• Free sheets

Boardsheets 

• Washington Post 
• New York Times
• Times
• Telegraph 
• Financial Times
• Gaudian 

Tabloid

• Indipentant 
• Metro 
• The People
• Mirror 
• Daily Mail 
• Yorkshire Post 
• Daily Express 

Reginal Post 

• Yorkshire post
• Lancashire telegraph
• Express and Star
• Express and Echo
• Evening mail
• Telford Jornal 
• Echo 

News Sites

• This Morning
• Bing
• ITV Online
• Google News
• BBC News
• Sky News 
• Yahoo! 
• Red It 
• Gaudian 
• Observer
• Indipendent 
• CNN
• Fox

Programs 

• 6 and 10 o'clock news
• Daybreak
• This Morning 
• 8 to 10 cats 
• Moc of the Week
• Have I got News for You
• Question Time
• One Show

There are many different ways in the media of how to portray different news stories. Also social networking is now a massive part of news stories now, especially with twitter with the introduction of the hashtag and trending topics. Radio also has a lot of news on it, which is portrayed in a formal way. 

Today I brought two papers, The Sun which is a tabloid and a Guardian which is a broadsheet. Immediately you can notice some main differences, one being the size, board sheets are usually twice the size as a tabloid, which makes them really awkward to read. Also the amount of body text on the broadsheets is a lot more, they go into a lot more detail with longer articles. I have also noticed that the language in a broadsheet is a lot more formal, the broadsheet is usually read by the more educated and by people in authority. Tabloids also cover a lot more of the gossip stories and contain a lot more gossip stories.  

Above I took this image to prove how different the two different newspapers are as you can see the one above (tabloid) has a lot more adverts and celeb stories, whereas the broadsheet goes into a lot more finical and education issues. Now I need to read the newspapers and choose stories that I'm interested in to research further into the topic.