This is first part of my article :

Students will have to pay £6000 to £9000 for a degree course starting in 2012. Universities will be allowed to charge £6000 or £9000, depending on the extra support for students. Currently students pay £3.200. Students will be able to get a government funded loan to help them pay for course and living costs. They will have to pay it back when they start earning more than £21.000 a year. This has also increased from £15.000. This will affect students who can’t pay their fees upfront. The interest rate will increase by 3%. Students wanting to repay money early will have to pay 5% more.

The increasing costs of tuition fees will replace the public funding which was withdrawn from universities. It’s said that tuition fees must increase in order to maintain decent teaching standards and institutions.

Critics warned that the increase will hit those from middle – class families and make universities unpopular.  

I've asked for feedback on this article. My friend said that it is very factual and suits the newspaper because my target audience is business people and older people, not teenagers. She also said that I could add opinions of the students and also from the government. Use quotes. This would make the article more formal and interesting.

This is a short explanation of my layout. Main story will be increasing university fees. I will create an article about it and place it in the four columns on my front cover. I will put student photos and quotes on the left side. I believe this is good because it is an important issue at the moment and I will use all of my cover for this. 

I will take photo of money and put this as the main photo, representing increasing fees. 

Further improvement of my newspaper cover. This is most suitable layout so far.

 

 This is the latest improvement on my newspaper. I've added some colour at the top to make the headline stand out more. Now it's eye catching.  At the left side I will add some sub-headings and few sentences about the content of the newspaper, to make people interested in buying it.

Fonts.

There are two main types of font I could use. 

Serif Fonts - these types of fonts are used a lot, it's simple and easy to read, it suits magazines, newspapers, almost everything. 


Sans Serif Fonts - these fonts are usually used in newspapers, not magazines. The difference is that it has little 'tales' at the end. I believe that it would make my newspaper articles look nice and would suit the theme of the newspaper.

I was thinking of putting 'Latest news' in the right hand corner, at the top. I will ask for feedback because I think it is not enough, that corner still looks too plain.
I also changed font of the headline of the main story, in my opinion it looks better.
I also removed the outline of the photo and made it a little bigger.

 

This is my 2nd draft, layout. I've added date, website, headline of a main story, one photo and some columns for the body text. I still have to think of what to add at the corner in the top right. Main story will be raising university fees because I think it's important for all people, younger and older because not everyone starts university at 18 and not everyone has a lot of money to do that. This is not my photo, I took it from the internet and placed it there just for now, to see how my layout will look like with it. I will take a photo possibly using money, which will represent what the story is about. I might also add a small picture of a university as well. Because I don't want to put too much writing on the front page, but also not make it look like it only contains photos. I want to make this newspaper look interesting and formal.