The byline shows the name of the article's creator and date of publication, giving credit to the author. Pictures, videos, and comments sections provide evidence and allow readers to engage with the story. Hyperlinks make navigation fast and easy, improving the user experience on the website. The conventions of online newspaper articles differ from print in formatting, with very short paragraphs and bigger spacing for easier reading on screens.

1. Conventions of a newspaper article
Headline
Every newspaper article has a headline, it is used to not only attract peoples attention with big bold black
letters but it tells you what the title of the title of the article is.
Pictures/images
Pictures/images are used to give evidence that the story is true and that it actually happened.
Caption for photo
A caption for a photo is the writing that is under a image; It tells you what is going on in the picture, giving
more evidence to make the story more believable.
Paragraphs (short)
Short paragraphs are used so that its easy to know the whole story quick and easy.
Byline
The Byline features the name of the person that wrote the article, also on the Byline it tells you the date in
which the article was published.
Columns
Newspaper articles are written in small columns so that you can read the whole article without losing your
place. It also saves room for images to be placed.
First para sums up story
Newspaper articles do this so that if the reader reads it maybe they will get intersted in it and buy the
newspaper.

2. Information
Information is what makes the article real; giving lots of information so that you can believe the article is
true. It is important to have lots of information so that the newspaper can relate to everyone.
Interviews
Interviews make the article more believable because your getting information coming from a member of
our community.
Quotes
Quotes are used to indicate what someone has to say beucase the quote can be explained afterwards. It
makes the reader know the newspaper is a reliable source for information that is used.
Facts and opinions
Opinions aren’t reliable at all, they can be taken into account but never taken too serious, whereas facts
have been proven so information being given out becomes much more reliable.
Statistics
A gathering of data which can be used as an argument in a debate to determine how a situation can be
handled. The readers can find this very acknowledging .
Form: Newspaper article
Structure Paragraphs, columns
Content: News, current affairs, information, facts, opinions, statistics
Technical conventions:
Mode of address: Formal, serious – depends on the newspaper. Can be more informal if it is a tabloid.

3. Byline
The Byline shows you the name of the person that created and published the article, as well as telling us the date of when
it was published. This gives recognition the hard work the publisher has put into it.
Date and time
The date and time is shown to show how recently the article was put up. This is good for the reader because it shows that
the website is updated regularly and that it is reliable.
Pictures
Pictures are often used to back up information, giving evidence that the article is real and also it shows the reader that
the website is consistent with their stories.
Location links of the story
Social sharing – which moves with the page navigation
Headline and summing up sentence
Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are used all the time because they are so helpful, Hyperlinks make it so that you can get to a website or a
certain part of a page very fast. This makes it fast and easy which is good because the viewer will enjoy using the website
more and it will make them want to keep using the website.
Conventions of a Newspaper website article

4. Very short paragraphs
This makes the information short, quick and to the point.
Bigger spaces between paragraphs
Bigger spaces between paragraphs makes it easier to read so the information isn’t just jammed in one space.
No columns
Unlike a newspaper on a computer you have a page as long as you want so information can be placed anywhere. With
technology now a days you can even save this information to your computer.
Some will have comments sections
Comment sections were implemented so that the reader can give their opinions on the subject.
Side boxes with additional info
Side boxes are often used to give short, quick and important info as well as sometimes implemented a hyperlink to
another page that might have similar information.
Videos sometimes
Videos are sometimes their because someone was as the scene of the location and they might show vital things in their
videos which will become eyewitnesses.

5. Difference between Tabloid and Broadsheet newspapers.
Tabloid broadsheet
A broadsheet is twice the size of a tabloid.
Broadsheets have more in-depth coverage of a news
story, with longer articles.
Stories used in a broadsheet newspaper usually focus on
serious stories.
Broadsheet newspapers are taken more seriously by the
general public than tabloids.
Broadsheets are bigger than tabloids because they
contain more content.
The news stories in a broadsheet are brief and straight to
the point. The language is more formal than that of a
tabloid too.
Tabloids are smaller with short articles with short
sentences. They are more extraordinary and the
language is more general and readable by less educated
people. They also often contain more photographs than
the Broadsheets. Tabloids tend to cover less important
stories and have more "gossip“ from celebrities.
The contents of a tabloid newspaper does not mainly
consist of serious issues. The content is full of
entertaining and intriguing stories about celebrities and
other figures. They contain a lot of outrageous stories on
celebrities and public figures.
Tabloid stories are sensational and the language that is
used is so simple and informal that even less educated
people understand it perfectly.