The Difference Btween National & Local Newspapers

The Times (National)

Standard Today (National)

The National (National)

Local News (Local)

The first and the most obvious difference between local and national newspapers is that the local newspapers provide local news yet the national newspaper provides national news!. I have planned to look into the design and layout of both in order to understand and make my product stand out. The first thing that caught my attention while comparing the both types of newspapers was that the local newspaper consists of one head line story and more adverts on the front page, whereas national newspapers generally have other smaller stories surrounding the main article. Local newspapers need more money to keep going so adverts are an obvious choice, this not only keeps local news going it also helps local businesses to gain exposure. For my local newspaper i have planned to replicate the same style in layouts.

Champion (Local)

News (Local)

Standard Today (National)

The News (Local)

Local News Paper Codes & Conventions

Codes & conventions of a newspaper from Fatima Iftikhar

Chosen Brief

The Brief I have chosen for my A Levels final project is centering Print Media. In this brief i have to design the first two pages of an original local newspaper, together with two of the following three options:

• a billboard poster for the newspaper;
• a radio advertisement for the newspaper;
• two hyperlinked pages from the paper's website.