research- newspapers

Due to the age of the target audience that i want for the newspaper, i want it to be more like a tabloid newspaper or a magazine rather than a broadsheet newspaper because the layout, size and content of a tabloid newspaper or magazine has always appealed more to a younger audience.
Examples of tabloid newsapers are The Sun, The Mirror and The Star which all use large pictures and healines and often very little or no column text on the front cover.





All of these tabloids have a similar layout that appeals to younger people and is something that i may want to adopt when creating the layout for my own newspaper. Aspects of a tabloid newspaper such as the large photographs as the front cover as well as the large headlines are something that i want to use for my own newspaper or magazine because i believe that these are the key aspects of the layout of a newspaper or magazine that attract my tartget audience of teenagers and young people to buy the product.
Where as broadsheet newspapers have a layout that dont appeal to young people.




This is due to the large amount of column text that is on the front cover, broadsheet papers also tend to be larger than tabloid papers although in recent years the broadsheet paper has become smaller in size. Broadsheet papers also concentrate the majority of there stories on political, economic and bussiness news which the target audience that i want to reach may not be interested in. Although tabloid newspapers do have stories that are based on political or economical issues, many of there stories are based on society or celebrity culture.

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS


the yellow advertiser is similar to both a broadsheet and a tabloid newspaper, it is similar to a broadsheet because of the amount of column text that it has on the cover however it is similar to a tabloid newspaper because of the large picture and headline.
However this local newspaper is different from national newspapers because of the vast amount of advertisement even on the front page, this may suggest that the paper is free or cost little to buy meaning to cover costs the publisher would need to adverts in the paper.


i dont particularly like this layout, i feel that i has too many advertisements, however this may be because the newspaper is free, and articles on the front cover meaning the reader isnt drawn to the main story, they could be distracted by the smaller stories and pther information about whats inside. i dont think that i will base my newspaper on this one simply because of the amount of information that is on the front cover, instead ii will have far fewer adverts and one main story and possibly a small article to give the reader an idea about what will be in the rest of the magazine.