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