What are the main features of a newspaper article?

LEVEL: Intermediate / Secondary

We found some good sites by typing features of a newspaper article into Google.  We also tried substituting different words for features (like parts and components).

HOT TIP: some of the headings in your Google results list may have [doc] or [pdf] at the start. This means that if you click on the link your computer will download a document.

We like this page from Bitesize BBC, which covers all the features of a newspaper article (they call it a newspaper report).

You can find out more at Let's Write a Newpaper Story!, a site put together by The John Hopkins University. Click on the 'for students' section, and you can be guided through all the steps of writing a newspaper article.

Fairfax Media has an online Newspaper Factory so you can follow the steps to produce a newspaper.

Hot tip: Another place to look is Wikipedia which has great coverage of many topics, including an entry on newspaper articles, which lists all of the features of a newspaper article. But you need to be aware that this information is contributed by lots of different people. If you are using this site, it always pays to check the information against that on other sites or in books from the library.