Newspaper Articles

DAILY MIRROR

Picture – the picture on the image is clear that it is with the headline for the newspaper and it shows Prince Harry on the front page. It will draw viewers in because the news like to talk about the Royal Family badly and he and his wife, Meghan Markle are currently in the news. The photo being shown is clearly a paparazzi shot that doesn’t make Prince Harry pose in a certain way. The media portrayal of Harry is being shown as him clearly asking, or having a debate with someone about something – moreover the headline of the newspaper. The paparazzi have captured this shot with the intent of using it to draw in an audience to see what is new with the royal family.

Headline – the headline is directed at Prince Harry and the royal family and it is portraying them as both being in the wrong. It shows both Harry and the Palace having a ‘clash’ over money issues – which the royal family have a lot of – and the word ‘clash’ shows that it isn’t enough to be a big issue for everyone but it’s not that small of a problem for it to not make the news. It is a headline to bring in the audience to want to know more about the problems the royal family are having over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – even if she isn’t directly stated in the newspaper. It is advertising to sell more newspapers to get people to wonder why Harry and the royal family are still in the news. The headline gives meaning to what is happening in the real world, and gives a reflection on it.

Pull quote – the pull quote is to draw attention to the article and to make attentive readers want to continue reading. It had an exclusive from the article on the front page so that when the readers begin to read the exclusive article, they’ll come to the end of the exclusive on the front page and it will make them want to read more onto the story so they’ll have to find the tagline to continue with the rest of the article.

DAILY MAIL

Headline – the headline is in big bold serif font to make readers and the audience who just glance at the newspaper as they’re walking by to stop and have a read of the bold writing that could possibly affect their day to day life. The headline also uses the word ‘killer’ to show that it is a potential threat and to show that the virus could be deadly. If people have been watching the news on tv or reading the news in other articles it can show that fear is common as the virus is actually very dangerous. It is using emotive language to create fear upon readers so that they’ll read on to know exactly what is happening.

Picture – the picture isn’t the central image on the page but it is the picture that gets the most attention because it is the biggest on the page. It links to the headline about the ‘Killer Virus’ to help the target audience know that it links with the big story. The picture shows a woman wearing a surgical mask to protect herself from germs to not catch the ‘killer virus’ going around and it also has a caption on the picture which gives the photo more context. It is showing a woman taking no chances within England about getting the virus and it shows her protecting herself which has been advised by doctors.

Advertisement – there is an advertisement in this newspaper in the top right hand corner however this breaks traditional standards of a newspaper as usually it would be in the top left hand corner so that the attention is drawn to it. It is stating that there are ways to get healthy and the newspaper is from January which notoriously is when people would want to start getting healthy because it’s right after Christmas and New Year and it could’ve been a New Year Resolution, a promotion to get people to look at it and decide they want to be healthy.

THE INDEPENDENT

Headline – the headline talks about the spread of the coronavirus but uses different wording that the Daily Mail uses. The Independent says Britain is ‘bracing’ for the spread of the coronavirus which is what would be used for when describing the weather. It is used to describe ‘bracing for a snowstorm’ or anything of that nature but is being used in terms of a virus and is entails to make the readers panic.

Picture – the picture is of two Asian people wearing face masks to protect themselves from any germs getting on themselves and it had been advised by doctors to wear masks to protect themselves. It has been medically advised that people do so, and the media could be portraying that knowledge that they have.

Subheadings – the newspaper front page has a subheading for the main article about the coronavirus to give people an understanding on what the article will focus on and who it is most likely to affect. It allows the reader to have more of an understanding rather than from the heading which is to draw attention to make the reader pick up the newspaper and want to know ore about the outbreak of the coronavirus.