Key Components of Newspapers

Hard News


The idea of hard news involves to initial concepts, seriousness and timeliness. Seriousness includes many different categories such as politics, economics, crime, war, and disasters are considered serious topics, as are certain aspects of law, business, science, and technology. Where as timeliness include stories that cover current events such as the progress of a war, the results of a vote, the breaking out of a fire, a significant statement, the freeing of a prisoner, an economic report of note. 


Features


A feature is a story or article that has special human intrest that is not closely tied to a recent news event.It goes into great detail regarding concepts and ideas of specific market interest and in particular an independent target demographic, for example a story on a kids TV show could have its target demographic (audience) as parents because they need to know what content their offspring are viewing.While the distinction between published features and news is often clear, when approached conceptually there are few hard boundaries between the two. It is quite possible to write a feature in the style of a news story, for instance. Nevertheless features do tend to take a more narrative approach, perhaps using opening paragraphs as scene-setting narrative hooks instead of the delivery of the most important facts.


Masthead


The masthead is one of the main components for any front cover of any physical media text, it tends to be written as a list, that gives the names of the staff that contributed to the creation of the media text. Some mastheads also include information such as the publication's founding date, slogan, logo and contact information. For example on every Nike poster, the slogan 'Just Do It' is displayed clearly so that it gives the company it's own unique identity.


By-liners


The byline is a strip that gives the reader a brief outline of the writer of the story's position in the company, for example Piers Morgan - Editor.


Gutters


A gutter in media terms is the space between printed texts, this can be used to signal a change of subject.


Justified Text


Is the name given too typographic alignment setting of text or images within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right margin.