Popular and quality press: deducing stylistic features of the front page.
15 Outubro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Analysing the front page of British popular and quality papers: deducing the stylistic features of the front page by comparing and contrasting the front page of a quality and a popular newspaper.
1. Choose a pair of newspapers from the photos in the Google Drive folder Popular-Quality-Papers.
2. Compare and contrast the two front pages by answering the questions on page 14 of the English for the Media Workbook transcribed below. Bear in mind the different aspects/sections on the front page: the skyline, the lead story, headlines, the standfirst; is there a standalone?
- Choose what you think is the lead story on each of the front pages. Give reasons for your choice.
- What comments can you make about headline sizes and types on the two front pages?
- How are the front pages different from or similar to each other?
- Compare the number and size of advertisements and pictures, the amount of space given to national vs. international news, etc.
- What kind of news do editors think it worthy of the front page?
- Comment on the ways in which front-page editors tempt readers to buy the two papers.