Examples of Newspaper Article

Newspaper article

A newspaper article o press article is a piece of writing with a very diverse form and content, which appears published in the written press and whose fundamental purpose is to provide readers with information of interest regarding a theme.

Its name comes from the Latin articulus, which means "small part of a whole", because in principle it is about each of the texts that make up a newspaper.

Types and examples of newspaper articles

Depending on the topic chosen and the way it is approached, newspaper articles receive different names and present different fundamental characteristics. Some newspaper articles are:

• • "Venezuela: the search for the disappeared continues after mudslides that left at least 20 dead and thousands affected" published on August 26, 2021 on BBC News Mundo (UK).
  • "Banco Sabadell announces a new staff cut" published on August 30, 2021 in the newspaper El País (Spain).
  • "Boca was not enough to chain his third victory against Racing in the Professional Football League" published on August 29, 2021 in the Clarín newspaper (Argentina).

• • "A reactor that North Korea uses to produce plutonium appears to be active, says UN body", by Joshua Berlinger, Will Ripley and Jake Kwon on CNN (United States).
  • "How hurricanes form and why are they so frequent in Mexico, the United States and the Caribbean", by Camilla Costa, Carol Olona and Cecilia Tombesi in BBC News Mundo (United Kingdom).
  • "How a virus marked the change of an era: a year later, nothing will ever be the same", by Isabel Miranda in ABC (Spain).

• • Pablo Iglesias: "It is evident that the extreme right is trying to infiltrate sectors of politics". Interview in the newspaper La Vanguardia (Spain).
  • "Andy Murray, the legend returning to Wimbledon". Interview in the newspaper La Nación (Argentina)
  • "Succeed being different, by Nathy Peluso". Video interview in Elle magazine.

• • "The Afghanistan debacle, end of the American empire?", by Orlando Ochoa-Terán in the newspaper El Nacional (Venezuela).
  • "Tokyo 2020. Gold Medal for Intellectual Property ", by Miguel Ángel Margáin in the newspaper El Universal (Mexico).
  • "Trump's powerful message of anger", by Michael D’Antonio on CNN.

• • "The day the women said enough", by Horacio Cecchi in the newspaper Página / 12 (Argentina).
  • "Chronicle of an epidemic that nobody saw coming", by Pablo Ordaz in El País (Spain).
  • "A man is fighting with my mommy", by Carlos Martínez in the digital newspaper El Faro.

Types of newspaper articles

Like everything journalistic text, newspaper articles are governed by a commitment to the truth. They are not fictional texts, nor do they have literary or poetic purposes, but rather they intend to inform about reality or propose some way of interpreting it. Depending on what you propose, newspaper articles can be:

• • "Epecuén would never be flooded" (Chronicle), by Josefina Licitra in Anfibia Magazine (Argentina).
  • "Tayda died, the daughter of David Lebón" (news), in Página / 12 (Argentina).
  • "Cruises, a trip away from the laws of the United States" (report), by Ronny Rojas and Maye Primera in Univisión (United States).

• • "The virus is us", by Eliane Brum in El País (Spain).
  • "Editorial: Essential ingredient of democracy", in La Nación (Argentina).
  • "With broken wings", by Abel Barrera Hernández in La Jornada (Mexico).

Topics of a newspaper article

The press articles can address, in principle, any topic that is of interest to readers: politics, economy, ecology, technology, culture, etc. These are generally current issues, that is, they are relevant in the present; although many articles can also "rescue" information from the past that is considered important again, or follow up on a topic to show how it develops over time.

References:

• "Newspaper article" in Wikipedia.
• "Journalistic genre" in Wikipedia.
• "Rules for writing a newspaper article" in GeocritiQ.
• "Newspaper text" in the University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Colombia).
• "Journalistic genres" in the National University of Santiago del Estero (Argentina).

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