What Is The "Inverted Triangle"?

The Inverted Triangle or Pyramid is a metaphor used by journalists and writers to illustrate the most important information first on a text, this is the most widely used method of writing a news story.

The format is valued because readers can leave the story at any point and understand it, even if they don't have all the details. It also allows less important information at the end to be more easily removed by editors so the article can fit a fixed size.

Other styles are also used in news writing, including the anecdotal lead, which begins the story with an eye catching tale or anecdote rather than the central facts and the Q&A, or question-and-answer format. This form of writing is also sometimes referenced when refering to the notion of 'Bottom Line Up Front'.

What Is Ethos? How Might This Be Expressed In The Newspaper's Language?

Ethos is a greek word originally meaning 'accustomed place' and the distinctive spirit of a culture or era. The term also comes from Aristotle meaning the perceived character of the speaker. The term Ethos also means the appeal to the audience ethics, knowing right from wrong. This may be expressed in the newspaper's language by using 'Ethos' terms to describe the ethics of a story and express different emotions from the stories that are being produced.

What Is Human Interest?

Human Interest is a feature story which that discusses people in an emotional of interactive way which creates interest or sympathy to the reader of the story. Human interest stories sometimes are 'the story behind the story' about a certain event, organization or historical happening such as the story of an individual's life or a profile of someone's known career achievement. Human interest stories are sometimes criticized as 'soft' news, or manipulative programming. However, they do still sell well as by effecting people's emotions and making them want to read the story which means that they will buy the newspaper.

The News

What Area Does It Sell In?

There are 3 editions of 'The News' and they sell in Portsmouth, Fareham & Gosport and Havat & Waterlooville.

What Is It's Audience?

The audience for this newspaper are the people of Portsmouth who are in the area in which 'The News' is sold as the content in the newspaper is about the area they live in.

How Many Editions Does It Sell? What Are It's ABC's?

'The News' has a weekly circulation of 48,191 copies sold and it's ABC is January - June 2009.

Link to The News website

What Is A Local Newspaper?

Local - relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area, local taxes and local authorities.

A local newspaper is a news publication that is produced and distributed within a 'local' area regarding news that is occuring in the local area. They are produced in different areas of a town or city to give the area a sense of community by reporting on events that are happening in their local area.

Local newspapers are also supported by a website that can be accessed by any one who is interested in the local news of a particular area in the UK. This helps the local news become more modern which can appeal to different age ranges who may want to by the newspaper.

The different areas that a local newspaper usually covers is local news, sport, politics, culture, events and also takes interest in national news as well which includes showbiz and politics. This is because people are always interested in news that is from outside their local area. The areas that get the most coverage in a local newspaper are the main headlines and the sport which includes many different sports like football, rugby, swimming and others.

What Is Newswothiness?

Being 'Newsworthy' means something being of a sufficent quality to be reported in news bulletins or newspapers etc. It means that a story has to have soemthing interesting about it to make the person who is reading/watching the news to stop and think about the story and aslo create a reaction or response to it. There are 5 areas which make a story newsworthy they are:

• Timing
• Significance
• Proximity
• Prominence
• Human Interest

When an editor needs to decide whether to run with a particular story, he or she will ask how well the story meets each of these criteria. Normally, a story should perform well in at least two areas to make a story newsworthy for the public to consume.