Compare and Contrast a Broadsheet Newspaper with a Tabloid. In Your Answer You Should Explore Your General Findings. Then Pay Particular Attention to the Front Page and Lead Articles of Two Papers Published on the Same Day.

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Compare and Contrast a Broadsheet Newspaper with a Tabloid. In Your Answer You Should Explore Your General Findings. Then Pay Particular Attention to the Front Page and Lead Articles of Two Papers Published on the Same Day.

Newspapers fall into two distinct types, tabloids such as the Sun, Express, Mail and Mirror, and broadsheets such as the Times, Telegraph and Independent. Tabloid papers focus more on celebrity issues and tend to sensationalise. Broadsheets tend to be more informative, covering more political and international news.

Broadsheet papers have a rigid structure; for example, on budget day the independent was split into 13 sections. These were News, Home, Politics, Parliament, European News, World News, New reviews, Analysis of Health care, Editorial and Comments, Business, Shares, Sport and Racing. With the exception of the analysis of Health Care these were all regular features appearing in every day.

Tabloids have a much less regular structure, on budget day The Sun had 8 sections. These were, Health crisis, War on terrorism, Bizarre, the TV listings, A problems page, a Fashion, holidays and sport. As well as these there was general nation and international news spread around the paper. Bizarre, the TV listings, the