Conventions of a newspaper article.

Tabloid Broadsheet

The difference between tabloids and broadsheet newspaper are that broadsheets are much bigger and has two folds, both vertical and horizontal, while a tabloid is lesser folded only once, much like an ordinary magazine.

Difference between tabloids and broadsheet.

Conventions of a newspaper*A convention of a newspaper is the headline that will tell what the topic of the story is.*Paragraphs are shown in columns and usually there are short but gets to the point of the story.*Statistics in news are another convention has it usually relates to the topic of the story.*Interviews with people that’s got to do with the topic or story to get extra information into the article.*Byline is a line that gives out the date and the writers name of the article which helps the reader to know who wrote it and what date its around.*First paragraphs are a convention of the newspaper it usually is interesting and if the reader is interested reading the first paragraph they will read on.*Another convention of newspaper is images they will put it with the story that’s relevant and have a little caption underneath it briefly explaining it.*Information that is given out on the news are usually reliable to the topic of the story and relates to the current affair.*Quotes of the newspaper is also a convention is either a saying someone has said before or someone’s opinion of the current affair but sometimes its mostly statistics or facts.

Form: newspaper articleStructure: Paragraphs, columnsContent: News, current affairs, information, facts, opinions & statisticsTechnical convention: -Mode of address: Formal, serious,-depends on the newspaper. Can be more formal if it is a tabloid.

Conventions on newspaper website article

Tabloid Broadsheet

Conventions*Headlines sums up what the article is about for the reader to know what they are going to be reading about.*Pictures is a convention so they can show the reader visually about the topics.*Byline is the date, writers name and time the story has been updated on to the website for the reader to know when the news has happened.*Videos embedd into the website so they can see visually about the topics.*Another convention of a newspaper website is they have paragraphs and more spaces between them but they don’t have columns like they would have in the newspapers with no spaces.*A technical convention a newspaper website will have comments sections and extra additional information so the people on the newspaper website can have a discussion and talk about the topic of the headline.*They have navigation bars to each topic you want such as sports, weather, celebrities and much more popular topics and they got hyperlink back to the homepage with the logo on the left corner.*They also hyperlink to other social networking sites such a facebook, twitter even email so they can share stories from their web to other people around on the social networking site.*Location links is another convention so they can tell the reader where the incident or headline happened from the website.

Form: news article website/onlineStructure: Paragraphs/no columnsContent: News, current affairs, information, facts, opinions, statistics.Technical conventions: tabs, hyperlinksMode of address: formal, serious