Research

In my A2 Advanced Portfolio I decided to create the first two pages of a local newspaper together with a radio advertisement and hyperlinked pages from the papers website.
The reason I chose this is because the genre and the skills which I would need to produce this assignment is different to the ones I used when I produced a classical music magazine for my foundation portfolio assignment.
Research: A tabloid is a newspaper, in small format, which gives the news in condensed form with the use of illustrations and sensational exaggerated material.
I’ll be making a local newspaper and in journalism, local news refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope.
http://www.wikihow.com/Design-an-Effective-Newspaper-or-Newsletter
Generally, local newspapers share news and inform the local residents of a particular residential area on what's happening. We get self-educated and learn what's going us around us which gives us a sense of security. The newspaper is a source for social interaction as it gives us something to talk about enabling us to connect with families, friends and society.
In my research, I found out that local newspaper have specific conventions like: reporting on local news, events, advertising local businesses, colleges and schools open days and so on. They also use coloured and high mega pixel images. I also found out that all the newspaper I research had mastheads, logo, dateline, headline, adverts and photographs with caption.