Here are a few ways the design and content of your news website could be improved to better engage teenage audiences: - Include more user-generated content like polls, comments sections, and opportunities for teens to submit their own articles or photos. Teens enjoy interacting with brands and each other online. - Highlight stories that are immediately relevant to teenagers' lives like education, part-time jobs, dating/relationships, music/entertainment. Abstract global issues may not resonate as much. - Feature diverse celebrities, influencers and public figures teens can relate to across different interests, backgrounds, ages and lifestyle choices. - Optimize the site for mobile with a clean responsive design. Most teens access the internet from their

1. THE BLACK BOX THAT CAUGHT A KILLER
Olivia Lewry (left) was killed along with her friend Jasmine Allsop
20 year old, Samuel Etherington thought he could lie about the speed his
car was driving at when he ran over and killed two teenage girls.
There is a device known as the Event Data Recorder (EDR), which is used to record
the speed of drivers and test whether they are fit to drive on roads. Samuel
Ehterington had this device fitted into his car to monitor his speed after he was
caught speeding before.
The legal driving limit is 30 mph, but the box found him to be speeding at up to
71mph in the 30mph zone and at 65mph when he hit the girls.
He said that one of the girls, Olivia, was playing about in the road when he hit her
and that he meant to stop and see if they were ok, but left when two angry men
appeared.
He drove up the road and rang 999 where he said "I have run over a little girl", but he
didn’t know he had also hit Jasmine.
He arranged to meet officers at a nearby petrol station.
Etheringtonsaid he didn’t commit manslaughter, killing without meaning to, but
admitted to causing death by dangerous driving. Jasmine, who lived near where the
crash happened, died at the scene while Olivia was taken to Portsmouth's Queen
Alexandra Hospital where she later died.
It was later found that he had been taking the illegal drugs ‘ketamine’ and
‘mepherdrone’ before the accident. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison and has
been banned for 7 years from driving. He also has to take a driving test on his
release.

2. My story is „news worthy‟ because it covers most of the news values
which help make a successful news story. News values are important
as they form what is seen to be a “good news story”.
Negativity – My story is negative. It involves deaths and damage
which, according to Galtung and Ruge‟s news values, is always rated
above positivity and is more interesting to readers. Negativity makes
the reader more interested because, scientifically, it can make people
feel better about themselves.
Proximity – This story is close to home. It involves people from our
country which is usually something which attracts readers to a
story/article, and occurred in our country. When stories are close to
home, it makes the reader want to read it because it is more relatable.
Currency – My story is a recent story and this is important in the news
values. Newspapers are competitive and this story is classed as
„breaking‟ news which is what readers and viewers want to know-the
latest! Although older cases and articles (for example Madeleine
McCann) are still interesting, breaking news is seen more interesting
as there is still much to find out about how, why, where, when, who
and what happened.
Unusual- Although this story isn‟t the most unique, and fatal crashes
happen quite often, it is different because it is a story which is very
gloomy and you might not expect it to happen in such a tragic way.
You may expect someone to be injured or suffer in one way, but when
reading this news article, you realise the depth of how distressing it is
that 2 girls had to suffer because of one man‟s irresponsibility. The
discoveries of the police also made this story even more heart-
breaking as the driver was being incredibly irresponsible, therefore it
wasn‟t really an accident.
Simplicity- The story I have chosen is simple to understand which is,
according to “Gultung and Ruge‟s” news values, preferred over stories
which are complicated and hard to understand. This story is easy to
understand as overall it‟s is straight forward and there isn‟t much to it.
Interest – Although this story isn‟t necessarily interesting to all people,
it‟s a story which is unusual and so devastating that the title may catch
people‟s eyes‟.

3. Treatment
Name:
News 4 Teens
Gender: Unisex (Both genders) – My site is going to have news stories
for both genders.
Target Audience: The target audience of my News Website is the youth
market, aged 12-16. This is a good target audience, because
stereotypically, teenagers spend a fair amount of time on social media
sites and the internet.
Content Focus:The content focus of my news website is going to be a
mixture of celebrity gossip, sports and fashion. This is because
stereotypically, the youth audience aren‟t necessarily interested in the
„hard‟ news that adults are, for example insurance and politics. It is going
to contain celebrity gossip because it is thought that teenagers find that
more interesting to read and look at, rather than governments and
financial crisis‟s. Celebrity gossip has various aspects for different
genders and ages to read about, therefore I think this is a good thing to
put in a website as it attracts all different types of people who are
interested in different celebrities. I am also going to involve sport in my
website. 73% of boys between the ages of 12-16 say sport is their
favourite thing to read about and watch on TV. My website is unisex;
therefore I have incorporated things which both boys and girls,
stereotypically, like to read about.
Finally, I am going to include fashion in my website as this is another
thing which many people like to look at and read about. My fashion
section isn‟t just going to be based on girls‟ clothing, it is also going to
consist of boys fashion ware, shoes and girls fashion ware and makeup,
as stereotypically, these are sections which the youth audience are
interested in. Also, it would be biased to just include girls fashion.
My news website is also going to be interactive. I am going to include
videos, GIF‟s and hyperlinks to navigate to different pages on the site. I
think it‟s important for a website to be interactive as without sound and
moving images, it might get boring.

4. Design:My news website is going to have bold colours such as blue,
green and red. I think it‟s good to incorporate colours in to a website for a
youth audience because personally, if the website has no colour it‟s not as
eye catching and interesting to look at. It‟s thought that teenagers get
bored fairly easily, so my website will have images and legible, yet fun
writing to make it look more informal unlike BBC News, for example.

5. This news story is relevent to my
product becase one of the topics in
my website is Celebrity Gossip.
Most teenagers likes to know about
celebrity life, whether it be about
how much they get paid, divorce,
marrige affairs etc. Celebrity news is
a unisex topic which can be read
about and enjoyed by both boys and
girls.
News like the one in the image, is
news which is anticipated by many
teenagers. If they are fans of certain
celebrities, they would want to know about what is to happen in the
future for them, so it‟s good to include celebritie news because the youth
audience, stereotyipically, love a bit of gossip!
This story is relevant to my product
because my website involves sports.
Having sports in my website is
important as it is a unisex news
provider, therefore it must include
subjects for both boys and girls.
It is relevant to my target audience
(the youth audience) because
stereotypically, boys who may view
my website are interested in sport
and not so much celebrity gossip
and/or fashion. Having a famous sport engages the reader more because
it makes them want to know more about the situation. Also, linking back
to celebrities, some teenagers like to know about footballer‟s lives,
including affairs, wages and injuries. Youths that are passionate about
sport generally read about sport so they can keep up to date on what‟s
happening in the sporting region.

6. This story is relevant to my
product because fashion is
another subject which appears
on my News website. Fashion is
relevant to the youth audience
because it is something which
all teenagers have different
views and opinions on. Different
teenagers are interested in
different designers, trends,
accessories so by putting
fashion into my product, I hope
to involve a variety of different teenagers. Fashion is also something that
the youth audience takes an interest in. Some youths aspire to be fashion
designers, others just enjoy looking at the clothing, but fashion is
relevant because it is more focussed on when you‟re younger. Although
adults still take pride in how they look, stereotypically, teenagers still feel
like they need to “dress to impress” so they aren‟t judged. Having a
fashion page in my product should help inspire teenagers to wear
different things and look unique.

8. Deconstruction
My News website is constructed where it includes a variety of different
aspects which help it to appeal to a youth audience.
Firstly, my website, unlike other news sites, includes a variation of
colours. It‟s good to have different colours as dull or solid ones don‟t
engage the audience, whereas having colours makes it more interesting
to look at and the appearance of a site makes the reader want to continue
reading. This engages my target audience as it provides them with a
more relaxed site to read and gives the impression that news can be for
all ages, not just adults.
The title of my website is “news 4 teens”. I have chosen this title because
I think the „4‟ represents how the youth, stereotypically, type when they
are texting as they generally abbreviate words. It‟s short and snappy and
easy to remember and makes the website appear more „cool‟. Also the
title doesn‟t include any capital letters as they make it seem more
grammatically correct, which then makes the site seem more formal.
Videos and images make up my homepage. These make it more
interactive and should engage the audience for longer. Having too much
writing on a homepage may look overwhelming and the audience won‟t
want to read it. If it‟s interactive, it would engage them because it doesn‟t
involve too much reading as stereotypically, teens are fairly lazy.
The background colour is unisex and isn‟t too bright or bold so that the
homepage is overpowering. This helps engage the audience because if
there are too many colours or the colours are too bold/bright, it can be
hard to read text or see images against the background.
My navigation bar has tabs that are different shapes as they make my
site seem more outgoing and adventurous. This engages the youth
audience because basic shapes give the more formal and adult
impression, and may appear off-putting or boring, so the audience won‟t
want to read on.
My site offers a pleasurable more relaxed news site to look at rather than
the more adult, formal ones. It‟s important to be able to involve the
audience because teenagers want to read/hear about stuff appropriate for
their age range rather than more adult stuff, such as taxes, which can be
found boring and irrelevant.

9. My homepage is full of well-known celebrities. It will help to engage them
as many teenagers idolise celebrities, therefore I includedcelebrities in my
site so that it can attract various differen‟t types of teenagers, and
engross them so they carry on visiting my news site.
Finally, my homepage includes well known social networking sites as
stereotypically, teenagers like to go on social media sites such as Twitter
and Facebook. It engages the audience because it provides them with
familiar sites for people of their age range, as well as older. Having sites
which are for their age range make the website seem more youthful and
for people their age.