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Friday, December 17, 2010

Analysis of the printed news article, ‘Materazzi reveals details of Cup exchange with Zidane’

i. News Criteria

It has the elements of prominence, human interest, conflict and timeliness.

-Marco Materozzi and Zinedine Zidane are two famous individual in the world of football.

It has human interest because it depicts a war between a football player and a retired football player.

It has a conflict because the two individual had a bad verbal exchange. It is timely because it just happened yesterday.

ii. Communication Quality

The news report included complete information about the 5 W's and H of news reporting.

iii. Quality of Construction

The story was well-organized with clear evidence of a transition/quote format used throughout.

iv. Visual Elements

There was no photograph included. But the headline was emphasized because it had a kicker, the font size were large and the font style bolded.

D. Analysis of the printed news article, ‘Student convicted in Sydney with murder of Singaporean flatmates’

i. News Criteria

It was already not timely because it happened last September 15, 2003. However, it had conflict because of the murder and a human interest because it involved an issue about man versus man.

ii. Communication Quality

It included complete information about the 5 W's and H of news reporting.

iii. Quality of Communication

The lead is interesting. It uses quote format for the majority of point.

iv. Visual Elements

The article has no photograph. The title is given stressed out.

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