Front Covers and Inside Pages of Local Newspapers...

Example of front cover of local newspapers:

From the research that I have carried out during the process of my course work I have looked at many newspaper, local and national. On the cover of the local newspapers there is always a interesting story that is relevant to the local area either about fundraisers, fetes and fairs or an emotional story about a local family or organisation that has achieved or done well for the community.

The local newspaper I have looked at during my research all only tend to have one main story on the front cover along with adverts for local business's from around the area. This is different to national newspapers as they do have one main story on their front covers but they also include small snippets of insights to other stories that are inside of the paper which only some local newspapers have.

Both national and local papers have a image or two with a caption to go with their main story on the cover.

  

Examples of inside pages of local newspapers:

From my research of local newspapers I have found that a majority of the pages are full of adverts. most of the pages either include one big story with an image and headings, and the rest of the page of adverts or two smaller stories again with images and headings and more adverts. 

Here are some I have looked at:

 These two inside pages are perfect examples of the usual inside page to a newspaper. The page on the left; it has a typical large heading at the top of the page drawing in the readers eye to the story. The heading to the stories are usually quite dirt and sound as though they are directly at the reader, making them feel engaged and as though this is important to them and therefore should read on and see what the story is about. This page (left page) has two stories, but one bigger than the other. The main story (the bigger one) is at the top of the page and has a big bold heading and a picture on the righthand side of it with a small caption underneath. Story number two is a lot smaller and is underneath story number one in a box. Story number two has a heading but not as big or bold as story number one.
Also on this page (left page) there are two adverts and one of them (the one at the bottom) takes up a majority of the page.

The inside page on the right also has two stories, again one with a picture and one without and both with headings but one bigger than the other. On this page (right one) there are four adverts which again take up a majority of the page, they go all around the edge of the page. All the adverts on this page are adverts for local businesses around the local areas all containing contact details and persuasive information.

All four stories on theses two pages are about different things that have happened or planning happen around the local area. All stories are appealing to local people that read the newspaper as they are interesting, informing and beneficial.

 On the other hand these two inside pages that I found are slightly different to the other that I seen. The page on the left hand side is different because it has three stories on but they are all rather small. Despite this, following the usual conventions only one of the stories has an image, they all have headings(some smaller than others) and there are three adverts. Again all stories on this page are about local things happening(informative). Furthermore the inside page on the righthand side is slightly different again. This page has two main stories on and no adverts. Personally I think the reason for this is because one of the stories on this page is very important about the "Calls for Military Actions in Syria". I think if there were adverts on this page it would draw focus away from the important story.

One feature I have noticed that is consistent throughout all the different local and national newspapers is the the reporter of the story is always mentioned at the end of the story.
Another  consistent feature is that, at the top of the inside pages there is always the web address of the newspaper, the date, and the page number.
Finally all images in the newspaper have captions underneath.