Research into Local Newspapers: The East Anglian

East Anglian Daily Times

Name of Paper

The name of the paper is 'The East Anglian Daily Times'. Being centered at the top of the page, in bold, black capitals. This is similarly set out to The Haverhill Weekly News. Apart from the area being in larger font, and 'Daily Times' is written in a smaller font, beneath this. The website address is written next to 'Daily Times', in red. This draws attention to it and immediately tells the reader that they can go online for updated stories. The date is displayed beneath the title of the news paper, to the left. At the opposite end of the line, 55p, along with the issue number.

Layout

The layout of the front page is fairly simple, like the others that I have looked at. There is one main photograph almost in the centre of the page. There are two adverts on the page. Both the same rectangular shape, one at the top, beneath the name of the paper. And the other at the very bottom of the page. The first advert is for a new national film coming out. The second is for a local/ East Anglian based recycling company. There is also a contents column down the right side of the page, like in many onther papers that I have seen.

Photographs

The biggest photograph is for the main article. This is printed in colour and is a close up of a girl who is part of the article. There are two more photos in the contents column that relate to the stories mentioned. The other photographs are part of the adverts.

Articles

There is only one article on the front page. But there are other article headlines written in the contents column on the right side of the page. The article that is written on the front page is incomplete and it continues onto page 4. This would encourage the reader to flick through to this and therefore more encouraged to buy the newspaper and read other articles.

Advertisements

There are two adverts on the front page. One of them is for a section of the paper, which is advertising a new film coming out, nationally. This is also printed in colour, and the two characters who are part of the advert have been cut out and overlap the name of the paper. This draws attention to and from the advert and the name of the paper.

The second advert is for 'Sackers Recycling'. This is an East Anglian based recycling group. Almost the whole advert is coloured with green. The red text contrasts from the green images and other text, drawing emphasis to one another.

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