News websites compared with print

• Compare top news stories in print and online (DM/Guardian) discuss news values and hard/soft news. Find a news story they are both reporting on and comment on the way it's being reported.
• The news story that you've chosen, look on social media and see how it's being reported and compare
• Look at the various links, choose a couple to look at that may not be part of the print editions
• Look for audience comments
• Click on the social media and scan over any interesting comments on articles

What the exam board want you to be able to discuss is:

Detailed discussion of the role of print and online technology and news consumption and response by comparison of the audience address and possible audience needs met by the differences in the print and online editions and social media feeds of the Guardian and Daily Mail/MailOnline 

Find examples from today's website:

 • Research into differences in audience responses to, uses of, and needs fulfilled by online and print news, with special reference to the Guardian and Daily Mail/ MailOnline 

 • Investigation of specialist, perhaps global, audiences served by online news (e.g. news for groups defined by a special interest, e.g. birdwatchers, or a shared identity, e.g. Britons living abroad). 

• Researching contemporary examples of citizen journalism and participation

Once you've recorded the videos, upload onto youtube channel. 

Online newspaper task

Have a look at the Daily Mail and Guardian front pages (you will also record these)

This activity looks at online newspaper generic conventions. Compare the print and online editions of a number of newspapers – see whether or not they fit the description of the similarities and differences in the table below:

Broadsheet newspaper print conventions also followed in online home pages	How broadsheet newspaper online editions are different to the print editions
·         the home page of the website prioritises hard news stories towards the top of the home page ·         the same traditional masthead is used as in the print edition ·         most home pages use a four column layout which fills the homepage with news, connoting seriousness ·         most typography is serif, connoting formality.	·         more extensive use of colour ·         opinion, lifestyle and sports pieces appear on the home page, these would not appear on print broadsheet front pages ·         some use of sans-serif fonts.
Tabloid newspaper print conventions also followed in online home pages	How tabloid newspaper online editions are different to the print editions
·         lifestyle, ‘showbiz’ and human interest stories are prioritised towards the top of the home pages ·         fonts are sans-serif ·         use of saturated colour, especially red ·         photography dominates the home pages ·         the language register is more informal ·         the red-top tabloids all use the same red masthead as the print newspaper.	·         little use of banner headlines ·         the larger number of headlines connotes more ‘newsiness’ than the print front page ·         most headlines are not capitalised (except in the Sun) ·         the home page layout is generally less photograph/image and headline dominated than the print front page ·         the large number of headlines means that some hard news stories are covered on the home page that would not appear on the front page of the print newspaper.

Note why you think there are differences between the print and online editions of the newspapers. How much is due to the technology itself?    

Semiotic Analysis of a front cover

Advert constructions

Newspaper language

News intro and language from Great Baddow High School Media