Brief:
Take a magazine, and a newspaper and a book that includes images and text. Lay tracing paper on top of three different spreads (both left-hand and right-hand pages). Use a pencil and ruler to trace the grid underlying the page layouts carefully. Remember to remove specific text elements or images and only to draw the grid lines. Note column widths and margin sizes at the top, bottom, and left and right of the main body of text. Is your document based on a two-column, three-column, or another type of grid? Which elements stay the same on each page, and which change?
I used Bergens Tidene as the newspaper of choice and found a spread with text and images. I marked the column widths and margin sizes at the top, bottom, and left and right of the main body of text, and quickly discovered they have a system. They are using a 5 column grid, where the 2 last columns are of smaller width, They are placing images within the parameter of the columns, over one, or multiple columns.
I found a book with text and images and traced the grid system. It is a very simple system with only one column for text, and one for the image. The images and text do not follow the same lines but are centered above the text.
I chose Hjemmet as my magazine and traced this. It has a 4 column grid and the image lines up with the body text, tho overset to the next page. The margins are equal all around the spread.