COMPARING BROADSHEETS AND TABLOIDS

What are the main differences between tabloids and

broadsheets? In pairs comment briefly on the following
items:
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Headline.
Layout
Photograph
Language
Approach

TABLOIDS
Much bigger
More dramatic
More informal
HEADLINE
Use of short
dramatic words
Use of word
exclusive
The news covers all
the front page
LAYOUT
Text is very short.
Headline is given
importance
Paparazzi
PHOTOGRAPH
photograph
More colloquial
words.
Idiomatic,
LANGUAGE
conversational
language
APPROACH

More sensationalist
Focus on scandal

BROADSHEETS

Other stories on the

front page.
Longer text, more
information
Portrait photograph
More factual and
objective
More references to
attributed sources.
Longer, more
complex sentences.
More serious and
impartial