For my newspaper NEA I am going to produce the front cover of a local newspaper, called Island News, which will be aimed at an audience of all ages living in the region who are interested in national and international news stories as well as stories relating specifically to the local area.

In terms of layout and design, I am going to follow the style model of our CSP (The Daily Mail). This has a main image (half page) with two ‘plugs‘ or ‘ears‘ (ie headline stories from inside the paper), underneath a strapline for my paper. I will also have a masthead, barcode and other institutional details (time, date, price etc).

For my main story, I am going to write about a Driver being jailed after footage found by the police of them speeding at 80mph through lanes in Jersey, he was fined £570 and banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of aiding and abetting dangerous driving. For example, we have looked at the authoritarian v libertarian debate theory, this can be linked to my article as it can suggest that the driver is more libertarian due to the fact that he was not abiding the road rules of Jersey.

Underneath the main image, which will be of the driver, I will have the body article. I will have approximately 150-200 words which will form the main article and will be continued inside the paper) which will be set out in columns, with a drop cap on the first letter of the first word. I will also have a contents bar at the bottom of the newspaper.

Overall, the paper will be clean, contemporary and stylish