The main differences between a Tabloid newspaper and a Broadsheet newspaper

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Adeem Azhar      English coursework              Mr Best                                      10B2

The main differences between a

Tabloid newspaper and a Broadsheet newspaper

        In this essay I am going to compare 2 different types of newspapers which are The Sun, which is a tabloid newspaper, tabloid meaning the size of the paper (half that of a broadsheet). The tabloid paper I have chosen to study is a typical tabloid paper, I bought it on the 19th of May 2004 for 30p.

The main headline is showing a drunk East Enders football fan, but I am not going to study the headline or front page, I am going to study the 2nd page of the paper.

The other paper that I am going to study is a broadsheet paper known as The Independent, usually broadsheet papers are twice the size of tabloid papers but this one isn’t. I bought it on the 19th of May 2004 for 60p. As with the tabloid paper I am not going to study the front page, I am going to analyze the inner pages of the paper.

The topic in each paper is about the American troops and how they treated the Iraqi prisoners, I will compare the story in each paper.

        As soon as you open the tabloid paper to the second page, you are instantly hit by a large bold headline, saying,

“Fake Iraq Pics: Soldier Nicked”. As you can see the headline is quite simple and uses some slang, this is the formula that makes the headline catchy. You can also see other miner stories written beside the main headline, you can also read about the weather, which is also beside the main story. Plus there is a small dramatic image of Iraqi prisoners placed in the heart of the article, which makes it relevant to the story, and there is some text next to the picture describing the image also written in bold. At the bottom of the paper you can see contacts given for the readers, for example to tell them a story, or to promote or advertise something, or to contact them about the actual paper.

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From the paper I can see that it is written in a simple font, preferably times new roman, very little space is actually dedicated to the actual story, the story is quite short, a lot of space is dedicated to the headlines, and there is some space given to the images. There is little white space in the paper, making it look scruffy, untidy and unorganised.

        When I read the article in the broadsheet paper I could see that the headline was a little less dramatic,

Power and Vainglory”. Even though the headline is large and in bold, only ...

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