Monday, 14 February 2011

Story conventions

Stories
Within local newspapers there are certain categories the stories reported on fall into. Stories involving crime are always popular for example attacks assaults and sometimes murder. Local papers are also particular in involving stories concerning people going into people and especially when criminals are being released. Anti social behaviour is often a focus point with stories on vandalism and teenage yobs. The current economic climate means people are very interested in the employment industry leading to many stories on the topic of job cuts and the prospect of new jobs becoming available. As it is a local paper stories there are some stories which wouldn’t appear in national papers such as pet stories and school events.

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