What is newsworthiness? News values? Bias?
Newsworthiness is if something is classed as sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper.
What is a local newspaper?
A local newspaper is a newspaper that is published in a small area and the stories that are contained in the newspaper are local stories to where the newspaper is sold.
The News
The news is a local newspaper that covers the areas of Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham and Havant and Waterlooville. The newspaper is aimed at all age groups ranging from 15-75+, 18% of readers currently are in the age gap of 15-24 which implies quite a few students read the news and its also the highest percentage compared to 9% of readers who are aged 75+. This implies that the news is aimed at younger people and appeals to them much more than the older generation.
It's average daily circulation is 47,382 which was calculated by the ABC from Jul-Dec 2009.
What is human interest?
A human interest can be a feature story that discusses a person/persons in an interactive and/or emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest or sympathy in the reader or viewer. Human interest is about standard people just like everyone else and not well known public figures, if well know figures are included it would be a story about maybe a standard person coming into contact with them.
What is ethos? How might this be expressed in the newspaper’s language?
Ethos is the distinguishing character, beliefs or moral nature of a person, group, or institution. It can be expressed in a newspaper's language by the font they use, the logos, and the layout of the newspaper. For example if the newspaper front cover was full with storys and information it would be classed as a 'busy' newspaper. If the newspapers front cover was more spaced out and used colours such as blues, it may be perceived as a much more calmer newspaper.
What is the “inverted triangle”?
The inverted pyramid is a metaphor used mainly by journalists and other writers so that it can illustrate placing the most important information first within a text and normally the least important information at the bottom. For example this means that readers do not have to read the whole story in order to understand what it's about and can read just the first few paragraphs and still have an insight and understand the story.
