newspaper notes -

types of newspapers

• broadsheets (quality tabloids ) - the guardian , the times ,the daily telegraphy, the I ,the financial times
• tabloid - the sun , daily star
• mid market newspaper - daily mail , daily express
• local newspaper -the Essex chronical
• freesheets - metro
• Sunday newspaper - the observer , Sunday times , mail on Sunday

mid market tabloid

• typography - dramatic headlines in large bold uppercases font (like a tabloid ) sometimes is called a black top
• traditional British news values - daily mail with the royal family
• headlines can explore moral panic - NHS knife crimes weather
• uses high imact tabloid  style headlines but more text than tabloid
• direct informal mood of address
• use of pronouns to implied shared beliefs
• meant to be more subjective than objective
• cross between broadsheet and tabloid , soft and hard news

soft news - celebrity gossip , sport entertainment , fashion art and culture and human interest
hard news - politics business and the economy industry technology science war and conflict health and education

broadsheets

• text to image ratio is much higher more in depth
• sophisticated formal language
• objective / balanced news
• largely hard  news
• larger format smaller typography
• main sotry small letters more words