This is my first posting for Journalism Yr 1 in DIT, where I'll be going through the front pages of different papers each week to see which stories are making headline news and why they're there.
The Evening Herald: 23rd September 2008
Masthead: Fashion and GAA. The Herald is a Dublin newspaper so it has a story about the Dublin GAA team in the masthead to grab attention, especially as the GAA final has just finished. Fashion is there, I imagine, to grab female readers' attention.
Main Headline: There is no BP1 (Bottom of Page 1) story on this day, just the headline:
"Apprentice TV Star 'Hit man in front of wife'", with a picture of the assailant. Violence is often an attention grabber, particularly on a slow news day, and the parties involved are on our TV screens almost nightly so the story is given more import.
A quick description of the story in large bold print is made under the headline clearly and informatively, while the main body of the text deals with the incident and quotes from parties involved. There is no fold so this story covers most of the front page.
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