Front Page Analysis Essay

Analyzing of the front page of newspaper

Size of the front page of newspaper:

For the analyzing of front page of the newspaper I have taken a front page broadsheet newspaper from “Nayi Baat”. Let us first talk about the size of this newspaper. This is comparatively larger in size than the other forms of newspapers such as tabloid or newsletter size of newspapers. It is a wide one that contains a lot news in just one page. It has a different style of writing and aim to attract different readers.

Flag of newspaper:

The first thing to notice on the first page of the newspaper is its “Flag” which is the name or logo of the newspaper. It covers the top section of a newspaper as you can see in the sample broadsheet newspaper where its name “Daily

Its intention is also to add some taste to the front page of the newspaper.

Language of the front page:

This newspaper contains plainer layout i.e. no color on the front page as you can see the sample newspaper is black and white and very simple without any designing.

In the front page of this newspaper, more sophisticated and formal language is used in the articles.

Images:

Pictures are used along with many news so that the reader can visualize the news written in the newspaper. It adds more in the tactics of attracting the readers. You can see in the sample newspaper there is one large picture of rangers and other are small pictures of the news articles. Some of the news articles do not have any picture along with them.

Caption:

With every picture of the news, you can see the Caption which is written right under the picture. It basically tells what is happening in this picture as you can also see in the sample newspaper. The caption mostly contains the name of place or the city where the event is actually happening.

By-line:

Journalists name and details are written beneath some news which is called by line as you can also see in the sample