Media - Newspaper

In the UK, the newspaper is very important nearly 80% of people buy a copy every day. There are two different types of newspaper: the quality paper known as the broadsheets such as the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, and the popular paper which known as the tabloids such as the Daily Mirror and the Sun. The reasons of their names is because they in different shapes. The broadsheets are twice bigger than the tabloids. The broadsheets, cater for the better educated readers while the tabloids, sell to a much larger readership. The broadsheets write about politics and other serious news. However, the tabloids devote to human interest stories which often mean sex and scandal.

ref:

Driscoll, O. (1995) ‘The Media’, Britain – the Country and Its People: an Introduction for Learning of English, p.152.