Newspaper layout basics
Across
- 3. Mondays tabloids often offer a ‘---’ with football news. The Sunday broadsheets are notorious for the number of ---s. The Times offers ‘Bricks and Mortar’, a ‘bedroom special’
- 6. In contrast to The Times, the Mirror uses a --- font for its name
- 10. The Times is much softer in its political or ideological slant than the Telegraph or the tabloids, but there’s little room for doubt over where it stands through the fee-paying schools headline – unimaginable in the Mirror
- 11. Nicola Woodcock, Education Correspondent, gets a --- in The Times’ school story
- 12. ‘Britain’s most trusted national newspaper’ v ‘fighting for you’ (both in upper case)
- 14. While all 3 of The Times’ cover stories with paragraphs conclude on the front page, the Mirror’s MMR story gets a --- with ‘FULL STORY PAGE 5’
- 17. One of The Times’ means of connoting its seriousness is using --- case for its name
Down
- 1. Given how traditional newsagent displays make only the top half visible, its common to push the key selling features above-the- ---
- 2. The Mirror, like its two rivals, uses a --- font for its name
- 4. While the Mirror goes for a red colour block The Times simply avoids this, using the plain white page background for its ---
- 5. Important news: ‘New Bond stars are revealed’. This Mirror --- links to a story inside; when directly alongside the masthead can also be called the ‘earpiece area’
- 7. In the Mirror’s case its ‘NO MMR JAB ..NO SCHOOL’; for The Times ‘Fee-paying schools ‘save the taxpayer £20 billion’’
- 8. Friday April 26 2019
- 9. Both papers have an example of an ---: The Mirror adds hyperbole to its royal “exclusive” while The Times offers an extra section, Bricks and Mortar
- 13. The Times carries 3 stories with substantive text, but the Mirror’s --- is clear not just from the huge headline but also by being the only cover story with any paragraphs
- 15. For the Times its ‘Independent heads hit back against VAT threat’ while the Mirror has ‘Government warns it could ban pupils who haven’t had vaccination'
- 16. The big bald head of ‘William’ serves as a --- by being featured in a circle