Sports Journalism

The two different types of newspapers are tabloid and broadsheet. Broadsheet newspapers tend to be bigger in size and have more complex types of sentences. It has fewer pictures unlike a tabloid with the ratio of picture to text 7:10.Tabloids are the most popular type of paper; it is often smaller in size, more colourful and relies on page three girls and other such shock tactics, to attract readers. Broadsheets are generally larger in size, more serious and less colourful. They both have different styles of writing. The tabloids are simpler and have a more humorous type of style. The Tabloids are also more nationalistic and support Britain. Unlike the broadsheets which have a more unbiased view on each story. The broadsheets cover more important stories on their front pages but the tabloid newspapers cover more on celebrities and what is happening in the UK than anything else. The tabloids are written in more of a less formal English way and have more opinions than facts, which tell us more about who the audience are of this particular type of newspaper. The tabloids also have more advertisements in them and are less intellectual than broadsheets. The tabloids also have pinups, which also tell us more about the audience. In my opinion, many people that read newspapers would probably find tabloids more interesting than broadsheets in my opinion. In some cases it depends on what job u have. For example, if you were a builder you would be more interested in the pinups and the sports. Or if you were a business manager you would be more interested in looking up the shares and seeing how businesses are going. The broadsheets tend also to have more facts than the tabloids.

  I would expect the tabloids to cover more sport because many of the readers are into sport and the pinups and some just buy it to see the last football matches results. The tabloid covers a wider range of sports from darts to football. Some of the broadsheets readers appreciate this little bit of information given to them of sport they are interested in. The broadsheet also covers a lot on football because it is a popular sport. Though it includes fewer and smaller pictures than in the tabloid newspapers. How a publication or advertisement is designed tells us a lot about its target audience and about the image, which it is trying to project. Tabloids will usually have a large picture on the front page. If there is another picture, it will often be very small: so that the main picture looks larger by comparison. Pictures will usually only be used the same size if they are being directly compared - for example, faces of opposing politicians. Pictures in tabloids will be closely cropped to eliminate any irrelevant information, and captions will be used to ensure that we get the intended meaning. In a broadsheet, more ambiguous or more loosely cropped pictures may be used. Tabloids will usually have a large picture on the front page. If there is another picture, it will often be very small: so that the main picture looks larger by comparison. Pictures will usually only be used the same size if they are being directly compared - for example, faces of opposing politicians. Pictures in tabloids will be closely cropped to eliminate any irrelevant information, and captions will be used to ensure that we get the intended meaning. In a broadsheet, more ambiguous or more loosely cropped pictures may be used. mostly the cricket and football is covered in the tabloids but in the broadsheet they cover many more sports but the least popular on es only get less than a quarter of the page like darts. i think the reason why sports like football and cricket and rugby are covered more than any other sport in the tabloid is because they are the most popular ones and the tabloids do not want to waste space on the least popular sports. but the tabloids has a bigger page to fill so it can afford to publish stories and results on small matches on the least popular sports. another reason why the tabloids have only the most popular sports covered is because the audience of this type of paper enjoy reading these sports more than the others so some people buy the tabloid newspapers for the sport.

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In the tabloid the pictures cover more of an area of the page and it has more dramatic pictures. The broadsheets also have pictures but fewer and less dramatic ones. The tabloids make the pictures seem more dramatic because it makes looking at the paper more interesting and makes you want to read into what happened. The taboids use linguistic devies such as illiteration, puns and rhetorical questions to make reading the article more exciting. The broadsheets do not use many of these and use a more formal and easily understandable type of writing. For example the headline for ...

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