Narrative composition and content

Gokul.B App. Media - Mrs. Reynolds

Narrative, Content & Compostion

In this essay I will talk about the narration, composition and the content of the newspapers which are published today. These three points are taken very seriously as they play the most important role in the success and failure of the newspapers which are published.

I chose a broadsheet newspaper to analyse first as it has the articles in more proffesional order, its contents are trustworthy and there’s a bigger audience for it.

Narration of the newspapers – on the frontpage of the broadsheet newspapers you would find the biggest news, something which would shock the viewers and convince them to read the newspaper. As it will be on the National News page it has to be a big news, it could be about politics, disasters in businesses or terrorist attacks anything which will grab the attention and it could be happening nationally. It would be popular and affect the people globally. Then it would be the local news which might be important to the viewers who live in the city which is mentioned in the newspaper but mostly everyone prefers an international paper with a good local section later in the newspaper as it may not be that important as much as the national news would be because the local news would be for a smaller audience it would come after the bigger news as it would be for the whole country. After the local news and adverts would come the Sports news pages which would be at the back of the newspaper because sports doesn't take much training or intelligence to grasp and it has a wide appeal.The reason newspapers are set up like that is because that setup makes them the most money. As the sports pages have always been at the back of the newspapers now the viewers know where to find the sports, if they don’t want to see the other news they can just go to the sports area straight away and look at that, so they don’t have to find it going through the whole newspaper.

Composition

Contents in newspapers- In tabloid newspapers we find stories of , , , /, and similar to the broadsheet newspapers but they aren’t as big. The news about the ordinary people and what goes around the country which would be more emphasized, we find gossips about celebrities and their private lives etc... for example The Sun they put stories for the people who are less proffessionals and look for something more humourous and fun rather than the serious crime and stressful news they find in the broadsheet newspapers. The tabloid newspapers make the ...

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Composition

Contents in newspapers- In tabloid newspapers we find stories of , , , /, and similar to the broadsheet newspapers but they aren’t as big. The news about the ordinary people and what goes around the country which would be more emphasized, we find gossips about celebrities and their private lives etc... for example The Sun they put stories for the people who are less proffessionals and look for something more humourous and fun rather than the serious crime and stressful news they find in the broadsheet newspapers. The tabloid newspapers make the news in a more intersting form with more pictures. Many people buy it to catch up with the news going around the world, as tabloids are more picture based the workers read it during their lunchtimes as a timepass and entertainment. Many readers think its really pointless

It Seems that the owners of these papers care about doing is putting celebrity news as the major top stories. They have made celebrity news more important than the War on terror more important than global warming more important than the major problems this country & this world is facing. It's not a real paper anymore it's nothing more than a tabloid celebrity newspaper.

Why changes were needed to be made to some of the newspaper content

The contents in the newspapers we find today are completely different from what they were like when they first came out they actually needed to change for the better. Then they didn’t care about how to please everyone and just used to put the content without looking at any audience and not thinking about the foreigners and the people from different cultures and that’s why the newspapers then wernt that popular and successful whereas now the newspapers have improved and are more successful now because there are more foreign people in the country so the content needs to provide material for their interests aswell in order to gain more readers and also for that rather than having information only on british sport, they have news from all countries sport and their progress but with this the english people are also interested in other countries.The contents we find now in the newspapers are far more interesting now.

In tabloids we find the news about everything but in a more humourous way even the global news would be presented in a similar way but the broadsheet newspapers are for the more serius audience who just simply want to know the news and no other interference with it they want to know more about crime, finance, stocks and shares and business although they are getting used to the entertainment and the gossip news everywhere and are started to get into these kind of topics. As the newspapers need to appeal to all different types of people with different thoughts and backgrounds even the broadsheets include small informations of the celebrities and the current affairs mixed with other news for .e.g law, art, taxes, celebs and horoscopes in the tabloid newspaper are there so that they can get more viewers. As there are more issues to discuss in the media now and the way aspects are portrayed are a lot more controversial ways to attract the readers or viewers like the page three women who are completely exposed and revealing everything to get the men viewers and the Madeleine McCann case and how the newspapers were allowed to write bias viewpoints about the situation and not jus this there are many others, tabloids are more open about their opinion but broadsheets are not so open and obvious.

Even technologyy was to be blamed for the changes not to be happening in the early years as the technology wasn’t as good back then the print outs and the quality of it wasn’t that good either so they couldn’t made it more attractive and colourful but now we can do everything so there are more changes and the newspapers look a lot better too.

So this shows that the changes in the contents were quite essential to the newspapers.