Newspaper Article research

For my newspaper i have chosen to write about key issues that are centre of the media of today so that my newspaper has relevance with current newspapers and so that i can use printed articles that my chosen audience would be interested and investigate the ways they entertain and inform readers of serious issues that are occurring in today's society not only affecting young ppeople but society as a whole.

Researching into other newspaper will allow me to get an idea of how my own articles should be structured and laid out also the different types of stories
I should write about so they will be interested in purchasing a weekly paper.

Cover story:
For my cover story i decided to based it around a interesting topic that would really entertain young people so i decided to go down a knife Crime and youth deviancy route. To ensure my cover story read like any normal newspaper article i decided to do background research on previous articles that have been written by newspapers such as The Sun and The News of the World.

What I found out:
I found out information about knife crime by actually reading previous articles and researching knife and youth crime on google for facts and figures and found many useful heading and sentences that i could use in my own way to form my own article such as

• Gang members are bonded by macho street codes
• The reputation of Young boys today is gained through violence and is one of the many reasons why it is on the rise as boy just act violently to look good
• Gaining respect has to be answered with brutal retaliation between gang members or loos of face where they are no longer respected showing that to be in a gang one should live up to its expectations
• Many of the fights these boys ave are normally because of personal reasons e.g about a girlfriend, being in another territory, family.
• Gang members get so caught up in gangs that it becomes a lifestyles that they can't get out of so therefore would go to prison for each other or even be killed as a gang is about manhood and honour
• After gang violence or knife crime takes place trails of blood are left at the scenes of the crime
• Young boys are often caught up in gang culture where they have argument which get out of hand
• Facts and figure wise it has been established that 7% of teenagers say they belong to gangs and twelve to twenty five year old are responsible for 89% of violence that happens.

After carrying out this research it allowed me to use the information i gather and create a cover story out of it as i now had a better understanding of why there were gangs. from the information i gather i was able to make up a title of my article 'blood trail reveal all as feud spiral out of control' and thought an issues like this would be best suited on the from page as its very eye catching and serious.

Inside stories

On my second page i consider doing a Short article on the Apple i phone as it is a topic that young people will definitely be able to relate to and also because to days technology is so influential on society. i again did research on the apple i phone so i could get and idea of what was so good about it and what it offers that would be so beneficial and worth will to teenagers.

What i found out:
When doing my research into this product i wanted to only look for things about the i phone that would interest teenagers so they would be really interested when reading and if not yet go and buy one to see for themselves how good it is.

• Loads web pages
• Takes picture faster than any other mobile technology create before
• Voice control so its time efficient as it acts on people commands
• It makes it entire i phone experience much more responsive
• Allow people to record videos but then to also edit them
• Connect people to other form of technology such as the Internet so young people would therefore benefit from the likes of face book, email, you tube, ipod and a cover flow
• Can access what ever you want as it is at the touch of your finger tips

This information will allow me to go on a write a article review about the i phones benefits to teenagers, another inside story i am considering doing is about local Night clubs in the area as it will be topics which the majority of teenagers can relate to being a very popular club many young people go to in the area.