Investigating the Main Differences Between a Tabloid Newspaper and a Broadsheet Newspaper

Investigating 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 IraqPics: 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.