source quality popular source

overall
approach
Pulkkinen
2008;
McLachlan &
Golding 2000;
Becker 2003;
Sternvik 2005
text based approach,
more space for text
visual & image based
approach, more
space for images
Pulkkinen 2008;
McLachlan &
Golding 2000;
Becker 2003
story
structure
Pulkkinen 2008 stories are mainly
built with long texts
stories are built with
several elements
Pulkkinen 2008
grid Pulkkinen 2008 constant column
structure
varying column
structure
Pulkkinen 2008
layout Harrower 1998 no boxes or panels boxes and panels Esterson 2004
inferred no layers overlapping images,
layers
Pulkkinen 2008;
Becker 2003
Pulkkinen
2008; Becker
2003
captions outside
photos
captions on top of
photos
Pulkkinen 2008;
Becker 2003
photos Becker 2000 no cut-out photos cut-out photos Pulkkinen 2008;
Becker 2000;
2003
Becker 2003 subject gaze not
towards the camera
subject gaze towards
the camera
Becker 2003
inferred camera angle may
vary more
camera angle often
on eye-level
Becker 2003
inferred technical
flawlesness
technical 'flaws',
such as graininess
Becker 2003
inferred constant photo sizes extreme photo sizes Becker 2003
Becker 2000 camera distanced
from the subject
camera closer to the
subject
Becker 2000
type Harrower 1998 restrained, medium
sized headlines with
serif type
blasting big sans
serif all-capitals
headlines
Esterson 2004;
Berry 2004b
Pulkkinen
2008; Lacava
2004
black on white white on black Esterson 2004
Harrower 1998 texts in black texts in colour Pulkkinen 2008
Esterson 2004 constant, limited
typography
typographic variation Pulkkinen 2008;
Esterson 2004
effects Pulkkinen 2008 no effects effects such as
shadows
Pulkkinen 2008
Table 1: Dierences of quality and popular newspaper design styles from literature.
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