I chose to do my coursework on investigating different aspects of different newspapers.

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        I chose to do my coursework on investigating different aspects of different newspapers. I have several newspapers at home because my dad, granddad and grandma read different newspapers, since I want to start reading and do not know which one to choose, I am going to investigate which newspaper would be suitable for me by investigating the following factors.

  1. which newspaper have more adverts
  2. which newspaper tend to use pictures to express its idea more than using words
  3. the readability of each newspaper
  4. which newspaper will have more articles on sport, or more articles on business etc.

    I did a questionnaire before I actually did my investigation and I noticed that the tabloids newspaper is more popular. I think this is because it tends to use a more exaggerate approach when reporting articles, using big, informational pictures on it’s front page to attract readers to buy it. I would expect the broadsheet newspaper or the quality to have the most readability because most of the readers of this paper are more elderly and would prefer reading than just looking at pictures. The tabloids should have more articles on sport than on business because they again use big pictures and a short paragraph to report a sport result while a quality or broadsheet newspaper would just use a normal sized picture with a long paragraph. Also, during the questionnaire, I found out that The Sun was the most popular out of the tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mail was the most popular out of the quality newspaper and the Daily Telegraph was had the more readers than the other broadsheet newspaper. Therefore I chose these three papers for my investigation.

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Hypothesis:

  1. The broadsheet or quality newspaper will contain more adverts than a tabloid newspaper because they only their usual readers buying it, which is not enough, therefore they will need more adverts to earn more money as they have less readers.

  1. The tabloid newspaper will have more pictures than any other newspapers because they tend to be more exaggerate and will use pictures to attract their readers to buy them.

  1. The broadsheet newspaper should be the most readable, because they tend to use words to describe an event instead of just using big ...

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