What is?

What is Human Interest?
Human Interest is stories within the news which appeal to everyone and has created essentially a 'human interest' this can be news like "Yobs attack OAP" or "Children run for cancer" all these stories are designed to create an interest to all or many of there target audience.
News stories like these are usually common with local news papers as the stories are usually in close proximity with the newspaper.

Here is an example of Human interest, of firefighters rescuing a man from a fire. This is human interest as it contains other humans.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/firefighters_lead_man_to_safety_as_blaze_rages_in_flat_1_3136302

What is Ethos?
Ethos is an individuals beliefs and values which they go by, this can be incorperated within a news paper, with current affairs, environment and also sport.
For example, an individuals ideology on the topic of 'fox hunting' - this is a negoticated approach through textual analysis within a newspaper, as some amy argue against fox hunting whereas others may think it is a traditional sport. This creates an indiviudal ethos of what they go by and follow.
In relation to a newspaper, ensuring you produce stories which attract the audiences' attention you need to show ethos which is shared in a large scale of 'Portsmouth' as a local newspaper. This could be done by sharing topics on local news such as football, council and also crime.

What is the inverted triangle?
The Inverted triangle can be seen as an 'upside down' triangle and is the order of tasks which is followed by when presenting a news story to the public, used by all kinds of journalists and also students.
The Inverted Triangle consists of firstly at the top of the inverted triangle is 'most newsworthy info', these are such things like; Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?, all of which is most newsworthy as it gives the readers an overall story and ensures that they understand what is going on before they include additional information.

The Middle section of the inverted triangle which is now more narrow and small therefore signifying a less important role in comparison to 'most newsworthy info' is the 'Important Details'.
After setting the scene and giving an overall basis of information on the story to the readers, journalists are now able to give additional important information so the readers can understand why information can be seen as 'important.

The last part of the triangle and is now the bottom and small point of the triangle is called the 'Background information and general information' - This is more information or even last minute details which can give the reader a feel that they can either sympathise with people or something involved and can understand why something is there and if the news effects anyone else. These additional and less important information is not as important as the other two section but is able to give the readers something more to read about on the story

Here you can see how the inverted triangle looks -

image from wikipedia

What is white space?
White space is the areas on the page which has not been edited with images or information, it is also commonly known as 'negative space' - This is used as part of production of a magazine to ensure not too much space is left and also not too much space is full with too much information, this creates a balance of white space and information space to ensure that this creates an aesthetically pleasing page for the audience to look at and read.
As I take this into consideration for my newspaper I will be able to not make my newspaper too crammed with information and make a good even balance, from this the page wont look cluttered and unreadable.

Here is a picture I took of a local newspaper 'The News' to show how white space and information vital space has been designed to create an even balance -

 - This front cover has white space round the edges near the margins and around mastheads, puffs, plugs and advertisements, this spaces out the information and makes it easy to identify to the audience as seperate pieces of information.

- This is another front cover and as you can see they have used the same white space as in the previous image, such as white space or 'negative space' round the masthead and other images and information. This shows that The News keep to a constant format of where the white space should be in comparison to the audience and what they have found easier to read and understand the separate news stories involved.

- This is the first two inside pages of a newspaper and this has been taken so I can see how it is laid out for me to use for my magazine pages.
Here there is large amounts of white space around subheadings and images, this makes it easy to distinguish image to its story and story to another story.
The main obvious area of 'white space, is on the first page to the right of the image with the two men in costumes, just from that one area of white space it spaces out the newspaper page of information and makes it easier and more aesthetically pleasing to look at.