Conventions of a front cover

There are several conventions of the front cover of a newspaper the most important of them being to attract a penitential reader. Also through easily recognisable style, layout and design the front cover should should be easily distinguishable as being that paper, so it should enforce the papers identity. As a result of the main title on the front cover being the second biggest writing (behind that of the name of the paper) the view of the newspaper on that main topic should be immediately known, and through further reading of the front cover the audience will clearly know the newspapers views of the days news. Each edition of the newspaper will obviously contain stories but the front cover should show the most shocking, news grabbing and controversial of all the stories.