We started this brief by looking at the various types of newspapers and the differences between these. We also looked at other places that news is reported. It was obvious that the majority of the people in the class were more aware of websites, programmes and apps that provide news rather than they were of actual newspapers.
We were told to find a story that interests us in a newspaper from the 22nd October. I came across this story about bush fires in New South Wales in Australia which I found interesting. I have family in Australia that have been under threat from bush fires a few years ago; I found this story really interesting.
The story is incredibly short but two pictures of the events were included. Not much information was provided but lots of dramatic words were used within the article. I found the story in The Sun newspaper so the lack of hard facts is not surprising seeing as it is a tabloid paper. I tried to find an article on these events in some of the newspapers that classmates had bought but I was unable to find anything. I think this is due to the fact that the paper i looked at were all British and this is happening on the other side of the world in Australia.
I started looking online for information based around this story. This was much more fruitful than looking in the newspapers. I found stories from all over the world reporting on these events. I looked mainly at articles from British and Australian websites but also came across a couple of stories in American news. I collected together these articles in an InDesign document. It was interesting to look at the different ways it was reported depending on the source. For example on the Guardian website there was a few different articles looking at facts and figures and reasons for the fires whereas on one of the American sites I looked at the story was almost glamourised, focusing on the bravery of the firefighters and the ferocity of the fires.
Shown below is a link to the PDF displaying all of my research.
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