D&AD Times: Research

In order to gain a greater understanding of The Times and what they offer I've explored each section online. The only limit of this research was access, as I'm not subscribes to the Times I only had a limited view of the articles and sections on offer. However despite these restrictions I was able to view the top stories within each section. The variety of stories covered provides something for everyone as there will always be a story to interest someone. Furthermore each colour has its own colour to make it easily identifiable online. 

The Times has multiple sections:

• Main news / UK news: figures 1-2
• consists mainly of the top stories around the uk such as politics, business and general news 
• layout is consistent, grid format is used throughout to highlight the more 'important' stories, as those the Times want to draw attention to are bigger/more of a feature with other stories placed around. 
• Comment: figure 3
•  variety of storied featured, covering topics from mental health to politics
• includes letters to the editor section, where readers right in discussing previous articles featured
• follows the same layout as the main news 
• dark red
• World news: figure 4
• wide variety of stories from different countries all over the world 
• from major political stories to tourism.
• green
• Business: figure 5
• contains stories surrounding fraud, merges and failures. 
• blue 
• Sport: figure 6 
• details events across multiple sports worldwide
• bright green 
• Register/obituaries: figure 7
• contains obituaries and law reports 
• grey 
• Puzzels: figure 8
• multiple puzzles online
• crossword, sudoku, quintagram, lexica, polygon, chess, bridge, kenken, kakuro, cell block, brain trainer, futoshiki, set square  
• orange 
• Times2: figure 9
• features lifestyle and travel articles as well as some celebrity culture cover.
• purple 
• Scotland: figure 10
• covers topics and events happening in Scotland or to do with Scotland.
• navy 
• Ireland: figure 11 
• covers topics and events happening in Ireland or to do with Ireland.
• green/blue teal 

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