Key genre features in a newspaper article

'Feminist protesters storm red carpet at London premiere of Suffragette'- The Guardian, 07/10/15

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/07/feminist-protesters-storm-red-carpet-at-london-premiere-of-suffragette

• Bold headline to attract reader's attention and inform them of an event in a concise way

  'Feminist protesters storm red carpet at London premiere of Suffragette'

•  Storm: Imagery of fast-paced, unstoppable action. Force of nature, inevitable, can't be controlled. Makes the reader think of a large mass of people (collective noun of protesters) with the same objective, all going in the same direction.
• Contrast of protesters who are normally thought to be in quite an informal settling eg. the streets being on the red carpet which suggests prestige, formality. Intrigues the reader.
•  Stereotype of protesters being from working class backgrounds being somewhere 'unobtainable' to them also intrigues the reader into wanting to read more.

• Smaller, faded subtitle to give the reader more information about the event and encourage them to read the rest of the article.

'More than a hundred protesters jumped the barriers onto the red carpet as green and purple smoke bombs filled the air outside the Odeon cinema'

•   'More than a hundred' is quite ambigious because more than a hundred could be 105 or 175 so this could exaggerate the amount of feminists protesting (hyperbole)
• The lexical choice of 'jumped' suggests connotations of high energy, youth, revolution (jumping over metaphorical barriers, protesters at a prestigious event etc)
• By specifying that the smoke was green and purple is dramatic, showing it's importance
• 'Filled the air' suggests not being able to get away from it,  not being able to ignore the protesters on the red carpet ('Presenter Lauren Laverne was forced to raise her voice to interview the directors on camera in front of the cinema as the activists chanted “Dead women can’t vote” and “We are suffragettes”) 
• Irony because the article gives a voice to the protesters who were trying to be silenced at the event

• The article is presented in short paragraphs which could be because as the article is online, the journalist has awareness that the reader does not have a lot of time to read long walls of text. The article is broken down so that it could be skim-read during someone's lunch break, on the tube on someone's phone etc. 
• Key phrases eg. Suffragette, Sisters Uncut have links to other articles on The Guardian website that are relevant to the article being read so that extra information is available if the reader wants to learn more but the article is still concise and compact. 
• The article also has 4 photographs from the premiere that attract the reader's attention, keep them entertained and further break down the text. A caption underneath each picture briefly describes what's happening in the picture. 
•  The article also contains direct speech from the objects of the article which makes the article feel more informal and entertaining. There is also a space for comments at the bottom of the article which makes the reader feel involved in the article and it's topic.