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Writer's pictureOliver Hancock

Features of Tabloids and Broadsheets

Tabloid paper (The Sun)

Huge images

Soft news (sport, celeb gossip, royal family)

Short articles- low level English minimal amount of text.

Stereotypes

Lots of adverts (aimed for the target audience) Large headlines

Sans serif font- large font, bold, capitals

Lots of bright colors

Social demographic of C2, D and E.

Puns and jokes


Broadsheet Paper (The guardian)

Serif font

Text in columns

Formal "high register" language

Few pictures and they tend to be smaller than those from a tabloid

Front page is rather plain

Content is political, serious, intellectual

Facts and figures give articles a well-researched and trustworthy tone

ABC1 demographic

Softer news if often in a separate insert

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