Analysing Newspapers

These are two examples of two local newspapers that I analysed. They are both from the same newspaper, The Liverpool Echo and are therefore very similar. I have chosen the Liverpool as my main newspaper to analyse as it is the most popular newspaper from my are.

I can see that the title is positioned in the top left hand corner along with the price and date and e-mail address.
This is a code and convention that im going to conform to because it is found with the majority of newspapers whether tabloid, local or national. Both have a main headline and this is recognisable through the big bold font however the newspaper on the left doesn't have a first stance like the one on the right. I will be using a first stance for my newspaper.

Both have other insert stories positioned above the main story. These stories vary in genre and this is important for a newspaper, to have variety. The genres include crime, sport, music and politics.

It is also noticeable that both of these newspapers have adverts at the bottom of their newspapers and this seems to be a code and convention with most local newspapers I have looked at but I am going to challenge this code and convention by not having adverts on my front cover.

Both newspapers also include a byline, which gives the name and sometimes the position of the writer for that particular story and I will also be doing this for my newspaper.

I will be taking ideas from my main newspaper I am analysing (Liverpool Echo) but add my own ideas to make my newspaper original.