Analysis of Two Local Newspaper Webpages

The Hackney Gazette
The Hackney Gazettes Webpage has a similar layout to its newspaper. They both have a Masthead at the top of the page saying 'The Gazette' surrounded by a red border. Under then Masthead is the main headline for the page and is usually the same main headline from then newspaper. The page has alot of advertisement as the paper and the page are only local and dont have enough reputation to use large advertisers so instead it uses alot of smaller ones. Most of the page is actually taken up with adverts with only a thin line for stories. Down the left hand side of the page are a list of links leading to other parts of the website.

The Harrow Observer
Just like the Gazettes site, the Harrow Observer's webpage has a Masthead at the top of the page which is similar to the Observer's newpaper. Just below the Masthead there is a line of links such as video, and lifestyle leading to other sections of the website, similar to the Gazettes site except their links were down the left side. Also similarly to the Gazette, the Observer has many pieces of advertisment around the page. There arent as many as with the Gazette which cold b attributed to the fact that local newpspapers need to use alot of ads as they need the money to fun the web page.