The Media: Newspapers

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on the front page but The Telegraph also has a humorous cartoon that relates to the main story. The photos in the broadsheet are needed to draw the reader’s attention to the paper but also to make the large blocks of text seem less intimidat-ing. The newspapers also have lots of advertisements. In The Daily Telegraph they are very colourful and large, often covering one or two pages (For example,, for Volkswagen or Saab-mostly car adverts) while the advertisements in The Daily Mail seem to be smaller and mostly in black and white (For example,, caravan holidays in Wales).
I think that if a less literate person was choosing between the two they would be more likely to choose the tabloid because the large picture and small block of text makes it seem less intimidating than the broadsheet where there are several huge blocks of text. A reader may also be drawn to the tabloid because often the photographs are of people we know. For example, In the Daily Mail the photo was of the Prime ...

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the layout of the newspapers. I do not think this job is as important in the tabloid as it is in the broadsheet because in tabloids the Daily Mail (which we looked at) most of the articles have just been squashed in where they fit best. There does not appear to be any set template like there is in the broadsheet. On the front page of the broadsheet, there are two or sometimes three main stories in the top half of the page and several smaller ones at the bottom.
Unlike the tabloid, the broadsheet’s front page consists of two or three main headlines at the top of the page and a few smaller stories in the bottom half of the page. Sometimes both types of the papers have additional ...

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