Unit 7 Journalism and the News Industry

ARTICLE NO LESS 400 WORDS   P4:  News Genre and Topic: Many news platforms produce articled based on sport like printed, digital and social media news, the one I've chosen is from ESPN, 'FIFPRO on women's ACL tears: Fix pitch, shrink calendar'. The news genre I've chosen to write about is the increasing ACL crisis within Women's football its a news article of sports coverage and concerns of the health and protection of players. Within Women's football there have been increasingly more cases which are growing  and women being more susceptible to the injury and the injury also being reoccurring causing players to retire early. It has been proven that compared to men, women are more likely to gain this serious injury. This topic is an important as audiences need to understand the severity of the injury in the women's sports game as it causes changes to teams and changes the winners are cups and tournaments.  How Does My Article Meet News Values:  My news ar...

P3: (U7) Describe the structure and purpose for different news articles  M2: (U7) Analyse the linguistic conventions used within different news articles  Mead Sparks Arsenal’s win at Chelsea and Bompastor accepts WSL title has gone - The Guardian  https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/24/chelsea-arsenal-wsl-match-report Structure: The first paragraph summarises the outcome and the major implication of the title race shifting this helps to intrigue the readers so that they want to continue reading the rest of the article. It flows from tactical analysis and goal descriptions to post-match reactions from manages which helps to give fans more understanding of the match as a whole. Then the article concludes with match states and lineups for a quick reference to the viewers helps for wider understanding from the use of statistics.  Purpose: This article is serious reportage, this means it is designed not only to inform the reader of the final score of the game bu...