Newspaper Analysis

Task 1:

How many stories are covered in both papers? What are they?
- kubica in Car Crash
- Garry Moore dies (Thin Lizzy Guitarist)

Who advertises in each paper? Choose 3 adverts you think are typical for each paper.
Sun:
- Loans
- Cash for gold

Guardian:
- Vision express
- Phones (Orange)
- Cars
- Credit Cards
- Oxfam
- Help the homeless
- Banks

What is the centrefold of each paper?
Sun - Petrol costing to much money

Guardian - A picture about the first ever 'white faced clown' church service.

Task 2:

Referring to your work on ABC1 demographics, what kind of people read each of these papers?
Sun - C2, D, E

Guardian - A, B, C1

How do your answers in Task 1 show that there are two different target audiences for these two papers?
ABC1 -These people can spend a lot of money on a newspaper. Very high income and well paid.

C2DE - These people spend a little amount of money on a newspaper. Very low income and not a well paid job.

Task 3:

Using two articles about the death of Niki Grender, count the amount of pictures used in each article.
Sun - 3 pictures

Guardian - 1 picture

Find three words containing more than three syllables from each article. Compare how difficult these words are to understand in each paper.
Sun:
-Detectives
- Whereabouts
- Firefighters

Guardian:
- Investigating
- Teenager
- Examination

Which article requires a higher reading age to understand it? Explain why.
The Guardian requires a higher reading age because it has many big words in it that people with unsuitable grammar wouldn't be able to understand.

What demographic group did Niki come from? Is Nikitta represented as being from the same 'class' in each paper?
Then Sun has made Niki look like a tramp, to make her look more like a Sun reader. But the Guardian has made her look more sophisticated, to make her look more like someone who reads the Guardian.