Newspapers

A newspaper is a regularly scheduled publication containing information, news, gossip and advertising. By 2007 there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a day. Newspapers generally publish stories on local and national events such as celebrities, sport events, festivals, strange happenings. Newspapers are generally structured in columns, with lots of text providing detailed reliable information as well as generally at least one image to go with the story, this is the part of the story that leaps out at the reader influencing them to read it. other features of a newspaper include; cartoons/comics, advertising, television listings and inserts from local companies and businesses trying to sell a product. Typically the main story is on the front whilst the back pages consist of sporting events that have recently taken place and sporting news. Newspapers share links with other types of media such as the internet and television, there are conventions of a website that can be found in a newspaper such as a web address, hyperlinks, similar format of information and possibly the same image, this is known as bricolage. There are lots of stories within a newspaper there could be as many as 100 stories or even more found inside, as there are generally around two or three stories on each page with around 60 pages per newspaper.