Newspapers- a comparison between Tabloid’s and broadsheets.

Out of those three stories only one of them came up in the Daily Mirror and none came up in the Daily Star. The Guardian had a five hundred and eighty word report just on the front page not to mention the other three reports from other people. In the Mirror there was one page of writing with a big picture and title on the page. The Daily Star doesn’t have any international news. In the Guardian there aren’t many adverts but a lot of factual information, international news and a big section on the stock market. The Times is a bit different in that it has lots of different news papers in it, The Times (normal info/news), business, sport and first executive (jobs). In my opinion this is better because it take ages to look through other newspapers to find information that you want, whereas in the Times it is separated out into different sections and so less searching is required.

        The presentation is a big difference; the Daily Star has lots of adverts and pictures and not much news, whereas the Guardian has a more formal layout and the reading age of the broadsheet papers is much higher than the tabloid papers. Some times the tabloids have double spreads of adverts probably just to get more money. Tabloids have more stories about sport and the entertainment industry for example the sun has no international news at all and just pictures and short stories, were ass the broad sheets tend to provide a more in-depth study of current affairs in well form ed sentences. The tabloids use price, competitions and ‘exclusive’ stories to boost sales. Tabloids use colloquialisms rather than formal English or to put it simply a reading age of twelve.

        The two types of newspaper are in competition and so are always changing their layout and stories nowadays broadsheets use more colour and perhaps more human interests stories than before and many of them come with tabloid-size supplements which are almost like mini- newspapers.