Comparing the magazine “Rip It Up” to the New Zealand Herald, was an interesting find. I never knew there was such a difference between the writing styles of magazines and newspapers. I thought that journalists wrote in their own style, as long as the spelling and grammar were correct.
The topics in Rip It Up were mostly about music and musicians. People were the focus in most articles, with the different personalities often being the angle of the story. The journalists write with much opinion, colloquial language and jargon. With this particular magazine, there was swearing and a very informal way of writing. The sentences were mostly long and very descriptive.
The images really caught my eye, they were obviously edited and large in size. The articles on average were about a page, the main story was three pages. Alliteration is used in titles to catch attention, such as “Prince of Paranoia”, referring to Ozzy Osbourne. This title isn’t likely to be seen in a newspaper but it is acceptable in this magazine. There was also alliteration used within the article.
A few articles were written in an interview style, which I did not see in the New Zealand Herald. There were quite a number of long quotes in the magazine articles. Advertising consisted of CD releases as well as movie releases. In summary, Rip It Up’s articles were mostly based on opinion, the opinion of the writer clearly came through in all the articles.
The New Zealand Herald was purely based on facts. The newspaper came across as professional and a very formal way of writing, compared to the magazine. The images in the newspaper were real life images; they were not edited simply to catch your attention but rather reflected a person or place for what it was.
Advertising in the newspaper was on a wide variety of products and services, air flights, cars on sale and what different banks had to offer. The newspaper was split into different topics and this was clear by the headings.
The titles were straight forward and they seemed to give the reader some indication of what the article was going to be about, such as “Police refer toddler’s death to coroner”. Whereas, the magazines titles seemed to have one aim and that was to catch your attention.
The audience clearly determines the editorial content, as well as the writing style of any newspaper or magazine article.
The topics in Rip It Up were mostly about music and musicians. People were the focus in most articles, with the different personalities often being the angle of the story. The journalists write with much opinion, colloquial language and jargon. With this particular magazine, there was swearing and a very informal way of writing. The sentences were mostly long and very descriptive.
The images really caught my eye, they were obviously edited and large in size. The articles on average were about a page, the main story was three pages. Alliteration is used in titles to catch attention, such as “Prince of Paranoia”, referring to Ozzy Osbourne. This title isn’t likely to be seen in a newspaper but it is acceptable in this magazine. There was also alliteration used within the article.
A few articles were written in an interview style, which I did not see in the New Zealand Herald. There were quite a number of long quotes in the magazine articles. Advertising consisted of CD releases as well as movie releases. In summary, Rip It Up’s articles were mostly based on opinion, the opinion of the writer clearly came through in all the articles.
The New Zealand Herald was purely based on facts. The newspaper came across as professional and a very formal way of writing, compared to the magazine. The images in the newspaper were real life images; they were not edited simply to catch your attention but rather reflected a person or place for what it was.
Advertising in the newspaper was on a wide variety of products and services, air flights, cars on sale and what different banks had to offer. The newspaper was split into different topics and this was clear by the headings.
The titles were straight forward and they seemed to give the reader some indication of what the article was going to be about, such as “Police refer toddler’s death to coroner”. Whereas, the magazines titles seemed to have one aim and that was to catch your attention.
The audience clearly determines the editorial content, as well as the writing style of any newspaper or magazine article.
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