JOURNALISTIC WRITING
Chronological Report
In class we looked at different types of newspapers. We identifyed two different types; broadsheet and tabloid. What is the difference?
A broadsheet is much bigger than a tabloid and involves two folds, both vertical and horizontal.
A tabloid is smaller and folded only once, much like a regular magazine. In addition to the difference in size, tabloid journalism is known for being more sensational and gossipy whereas news in a broadsheet is typically more formal.
For example, in New York, the New York Times is considered a broadsheet, and the New York Post is considered a tabloid.
A tabloid is smaller and folded only once, much like a regular magazine. In addition to the difference in size, tabloid journalism is known for being more sensational and gossipy whereas news in a broadsheet is typically more formal.
For example, in New York, the New York Times is considered a broadsheet, and the New York Post is considered a tabloid.
We then looked at some newspaper articles from today's papers to find what the key features were:
We are going to base our journalistic writing on this clip from Sam Raimi's Spiderman:
Here is an example of a newspaper article written about the scene above. Can you pick out the key features?
In class we looked at expanded noun phrases and then used these to make our complex sentence writing more interesting.
HEADLINES
Here are some of our favourites:
Some of our headlines
Captions
Tell us what the picture is about and what is happening and who the people are