ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some of the elements that help make up the modern newspaper package including its newer web, mobile phone and tablet formats. Every newspaper page starts life as a basic grid a simple set of ruled lines that govern the placement of items such as pictures and text boxes. Tabloid and compact-sized newspapers which account for the vast majority of titles in the UK use a five-column editorial grid. The Guardian was the first daily to have a separately printed features section G2, launched under the editorship of Peter Preston in 1992. The leader column sets out the newspapers views of what its editors consider to be the most important stories of the day and interprets them for its readers, usually in a trenchant and robust style. Web design has come a long way since the daily telegraph first put a list of stories up on a web page on 15 November 1994, and promptly crashed its server.
