Newspaper Comparison

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Newspaper Comparison

I am going to investigate the following statements :

· The sizes , number of pages , area of print and cost of different

newspapers.

·The relative importance , status and space given to various items.

I can find this information from a number of newspapers that I will

buy in shops this should give me a good understanding of the

information I need to retrieve in order to complete my investigation.

Therefore to complete my investigation successfully I will need to

work from three various newspapers these newspapers will be of

different types. The newspapers are as follows :

· A Tabloid Newspaper - The Mirror

·A Broadsheet Newspaper - The Guardian

· A Free Newspaper - The Wirral Globe

I have chosen these three sources of information to analyse as they

are reliable as I know I can relate back to the material to check and

double check my results and analysis. I think that this method of

analysing with three different sources is fair as if I just compared

one type of newspaper then my results would be biased as the papers

would contain similar pages dedicated to the same topics. There are

many different styles of article between these three papers and I

think this makes the coursework a fair test. I have also found that

these papers have a reading age of under 15 so I will find it

reasonably easy to understand

I know that the material I am using for my maths coursework is

reliable as I can always relate back to the three newspapers at any

point in my investigation. I am also using Excel - Database which I

can use to work out formulae as well as collecting data.

I will use a sample of size as I am analysing three different

newspapers : A Broadsheet Newspaper, A Tabloid Newspaper, A Free

Newspaper.

This will be a fair sample as I will look at the sport sections in

each newspaper and the date of each newspaper this will ensure my

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