Initial Ideas for my Newspaper

NEEDS A LATER DATE

To create the first two pages of a local newspaper, I am going to use Microsoft Office Publisher. I chose to use this because I am familiar with it and I know how to use it at an advantage for creating a newspaper. Publisher offers me lay outs that would benefit a newspaper; e.g. using columns to create the format of the text that a real newspaper would use.

Here is the prices of the newspapers that I have looked at:
Suffolk Free Press
East Anglian Daily Times
The Sun - 30p
The Guardian - £1
Halstead Gazette
Haverhill Weekly News

I have decided to make my newspaper 50p as it's an average price, and it's a rounded number which is easy to find the right amount of change for.





Name of Paper

For the name of my paper, I wanted to decide on something that would associate the paper with the whole of Essex, not just one particular area in the county. I chose to base my newspaper in Essex as research would me a lot more possible to complete with more detail and confidence that what I say and write about would be closest to the truth, rather than a near by county or place.
I also chose to base my newspaper over the whole of the county rather than just a particular place of it as it would give me alot more possibility of being able to write about bigger and perhaps more drastic stories, rather than basing my newspaper in a small local towns which tend to have smaller, and perhaps considered less interesting stories.

After recieving the results of the questionnaire, I have decided to call my newspaper The Essex Heart. I chose the word 'heart' as it is warm and I feel welcoming to readers. It's denotational meaning also creates an interesting effect, a heart is a main organ of the human body, the body would not function without a heart. This connotates a newspaper that is an important part of Essex or any other county if I were to change my mind.


Aritlces
I have decided to use two articles on the front page of my newspaper. They will also appear on my website, but in brief.
I am going to write a story about university fees, and a story about a couple building a school in Kenya.
The stories on my second page will consist of:
Cheap Thief Makes Profit
Teen Having Triplets
Race for Life Dates Announced
Braintree Introduces Free Parking
Mother and Infant Die in Blaze
(read articles in their own posts)


Adverts

I am going to create adverts on the front page and inside page for local businesses of Essex. The local business advert will be of my dad's pest and hygeine control business - 'Advantage Environmental'. His business is based through out the whole of Essex, therefore being very well suited for the newspaper.

For the second page of my newspaper, I will be using two more adverts, one is for a wedding photographer and the other for a local Essex based Motoring company.

Photographs

On the front page of my newspaper, I will have a large photograph that links to the main first page article. This will be a photograph of the pregnant teenager.


Below, I have printscreened the process of making the first two pages of my newspaper: