Newspaper Sample Template

Activity: Write a brief newspaper article for the Portsmouth Gazette or Mottley’s

Naval and Military Journal about the choice of Port Jackson for the convict

settlement. Save a copy to your desktop, type over the sections in the template

below, then delete these instructions. If you are working on paper, use the

template as a guide.

Name of your newspaper

Date of issue

MAIN

Your story will be about 150-200 words.

In newspapers, paragraphs and sentences are

short. Often the paragraphs are only one or two

sentences.

‘Choose a sentence from your story to

highlight an important point. Write the

sentence in single quotation marks.’

Continue your main story.

Your main photo should grab the

reader’s attention. Copy and paste

In other news …

Headline 1.………………page xx

Headline 2……………….page xx

Headline 3………….……page xx

(choose headlines appropriate to

the topic)