Newspaper Poster

When researching newspaper posters, I didn't really find any examples as this is not a way which newspapers really advertise anymore. I therefore, had to use my own ideas on how to layout the poster and what to include as there were not any examples I could take ideas from.
The pictures I inlcuded on the poster were ones from the news stories I had included on the website for my newspaper. I put sub-headings next to them such as news and sport as these are the main stories people look at when they read a newspaper or visit a newspaper website.
I also made up a slogan for my newspaper and included this on my poster; 'local news by the local people'. I chose this as my slogan because the news included in my paper is obviously for the local and surrounding areas and also because quite a few members of the public sometimes contact the newspaper with the stories as they are things they have to encounter in every day life and that's why I used 'by the local people'.

Pages on the Website

By looking at other local newspaper websites, I took the pages they had included on theirs as inspiration as to what pages to include on my website.Most of the local newspaper wesbsites had pages that included sport and news as these would be the most popular stories that people find interesting and would read about, I therefore decided to definitely have the news page as one of my hyperlinked pages as this would be the msot popular page as this is what people would expect to see on the website and also what most people would go on the website to do; read the news. Even though sport is a popular subject to write news about, I put this as a button on my website as a proposed page if I were to make the whole website but I did not include it as one of my hyperlinked pages.
The second hyperlinked page I chose to include was a local info page. Most of the local newspaper websites I looked at, such the Halstead Gazette and the Braintree and Witham Times, had a local info page with information about local events coming up and subjects such as the local weather for that day and also the week and also subjects such as the traffic news for the roads in and around that area. I chose to have a local info page as one of my hyperlinked pages as I thought it would be useful to the local people with the information that they really need to see as it is for their area and things that might need to use such as the traffic and what time and date events are taking place.

This shows the pages that the Halstead Gazette have decided to include on their website. This is where I took my inspiration from for decinding which pages on my website should be hyperlinked. I took the most obvious page of news as one hyperlinked page and then the idea of a local info page as I thought this would a useful and relevant page for the people that would use this website.

Local Newspapers - Typical Stories

When designing my newspaper, I researched the typical stories they include and the kind of stories they include so I knew what I should put in my newspaper. I found that all the stories are about things in the surrounding area and are about things what local people think are bad and good. Most of the stories also feature people from the local area and this is what the story is based on.

Halstead Gazette

I looked for typical stories on the Halstead Gazette website which had a lot of stories based on things in Halstead but also stories on things happening in the surrounding areas such as Braintree.

This story is not about Halstead but is about the surrounding area, Tiptree. This would be the kind of story people would read it about because it's not an everyday story but it is about something local so people would want to know.

This story is good for the local area as in the news recently all young people have been seen as bad people and do a lot of bad things whereas as this young person has done something good. This means people would want to read about it because it is not something they read about everyday with a young person doing something good for the area but also the country.

 All of these stories are based on things in Halstead. People would read about these because it is a story about something happening in their area. The story about the

hospital would interest people as the people in Halstead would use this as it is their local hospital and they would want to know what is going on with it. The stories about the salt bin

and the crossing would interest people in Halstead because it is again something in their area, and they would want to know what, for example the police, would be doing about

disappearance of the salt bin and the crossing is probably something a lot of people used so to have it reopened would be a good thing for them as they will be able to use it again and will be able to cross the road without worrying. The last story about the CAB, (Citizen's Advice Bureau), in Halstead would interest them as CAB had been told they were allowed to have funding for it for three years and have now only been given one and this was probably their local one and now they will not be able to use and will have to travel further to be able to use one.

These stories are about the surrounding area, Braintree. People would want to know about these stories, especially the one about the gales, as Braintree isn't far away from Halstead and this may affect the people living in Halstead. Also, the story about the Guildhall restoration is included in the Halstead Gazette as people in Halstead may be involved with this and as again it isn't far away from Halstead people may want to know about it.

As this story is from the website and not the actual paper itself, it is one that can be updated and is not just from the local area but for the whole region. People will want to read this because it is about the weather and everyone always wants to know about that. As it is updated, people will be able to get the latest weather from wherver they are to know about the latest storms expected or just general weather.