Comparing the Ways in Which a Tabloid Newspaper and a...

Comparing the Ways in Which a Tabloid Newspaper and a Broadsheet Newspaper Treat the Same News Story The death of John Thaw was announced in national newspapers on the Friday 22nd of February 2002. In my essay I am going to compare the story of John Thaws death from two newspapers. These newspapers are the Mirror, which is a tabloid and the Times which is a broadsheet. Tabloid newspapers include the Sun, Star, and Mirror. Broadsheet newspapers include the Gaurdian, Times, and the Daily Telegraph. The differences between a broadsheet and a tabloid are the size, a tabloid newspaper is half the size of a broadsheet. You need a lower reading age to read a tabloid because there are shorter articles,†¦show more content†¦However the broadsheet also covers minority sports, like polo and archery. In the times newspapers the article about John Thaws death is at the bottom of the page. Its not very noticible, its not the lead story, the lead story is about politics. Also the article doesnt contain any pictures. It consists of six, two inch columns. In the Mirror the article is the lead story. They dedicate almost half the front page to John Thaw plus the whole of page seven, also there are seven photos of John Thaw throughout his life. The headline in the Times is small and doesnt stand out, it gives the main details and its factual, the headline is also present tense John Thaw dies, this is present tense so that readers think they are getting the latest news. The headline in the Mirror is huge, black and bold, its also short and stark, and not a complete sentence. The headline is emotive Morse star John dead, this stirs the emotions of the readers. The headline contains all one syllable words and it is also in the present tense. In the opening paragraph of a newspaper article the journalist usually uses the four ws which are who, what, where, and when. This is the key information of the article, readers usually make the decision whether to read ahead if they want more detail, based on the photographs, headlines, and the first