Print media vs Other medias Codes and conventions

What makes a newspaper a newspaper?


  • A newspaper needs to have news in in or on the cover
  • Newspapers have images and taglines but magazines have a cover and one or a few main images
  • Newspapers have mass market appeal
  • Newspapers have headlines
  • Magazines have coverlines
  • papers have columns of text and info
  • Newspapers often are very satirical (they have loads of political humour)
  • Newspapers have lower quality images and Tabloids tend to have short articles whereas broadsheets have longer articles
  • Chunky text blocks on a newspaper
  • clear and simple masthead

Sentence starters

A powerful binary opposition is formed through…

The conflict created through this binary opposition positions the audience…

This specific aspect of mise-en-scene functions as a hermeneutic code… 

The proairetic code formed by the typeface suggests… 

The target audience will of course be aware of the symbolic connotation of…

The sun creates a powerful binary opposition through the use of bold colours and then the opposing black and white.



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