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Drafting my newspaper

Finding the right headline

Finding a headline

First I will need to decide on a headline for my newspaper article.  As I need to focus on an event that is in the local area I will need to think of a headline that will attract the local audience. It will need to have an impact on the audience in order for individuals to be intrigued and drawn to the newspaper. The headline is one of the most important parts on the newspaper as it is how individuals judge whether to buy that newspaper juxtaposed to other competitor newspapers.

My newspaper that I am designing is based upon the local news within Whitstable. Whitstable have many events as it is a tourist attraction town and is very popular. I have decided to do the headline about a protest on why Whitstable do NOT have any Christmas lights this year.  Many people are thoroughly disappointed as usually every year someone comes to Whitstable and turns on the lights (usually a celebrity). This takes away the excitement for the town as the lights are important to individuals at Christmas. I will ring up the local council to find out why exactly there aren’t any lights up as they should have been up by now. There has been talks about that we will be having lights up but they are stuck in china but this however could be a false allegation so I will find out why exactly when I ring the council.

I will make sure that my headline is BIG and BOLD in order to stand out on the page.  

For example this is a quote I will use based on the Headline. By saying ‘we’ it automatically gives a sense of connection to readers as you are including them therefore it is impacting them so they will want to read about it.

‘we want our Christmas lights back’

Second Page local newspaper Examples

Second Pages are much more harder to find on a secondary resource basis, this is because the main headline story is on the front page, therefore being more important than the second page. When creating my second page I will need to think about what conventions are used and how they use smaller stories and more of them.

Pricing of the newspaper

How much are Newspapers?

I wanted to investigate how much newspaper were to buy. I wanted to make sure that my newspaper is not over priced otherwise my target audience will not be interested in buying my newspaper if it is too expensive. I will calculate the average price and discover a cost that is suitable for my local newspaper.

This list has allowed me to overlook all the different newspaper prices to have more of a understanding in how much they cost. I have calculated the average price which is 50p. I thought that this is a fair price and customers will think this is a reasonable price to pay.