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Features of Tabloids and Broadsheets

Updated: Nov 9, 2022

Conventions of Tabloids (The Sun):

-younger audience

-informal

-not much text

-everything is lightened to make more entertaining

-male dominated audience

-lots of sports

-women in revealing clothing

-huge images

-soft news

-dramatic news

-short articles

-low register language

-stereotypes

-lots of adverts

-large headlines

-sans serif font

-lots of bright colour

-one huge lead article

-puns and jokes

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Conventions of Broadsheets (The Guardian)

-political

-formal

-plain colours

-mature audience

-intellectual

-high level vocab

-sophisticated

-not as many pictures

-facts and figures

-serious

-left wing

-text in columns

-serif font

-smaller font in headlines

-lots of content

-plain front page

-ABC1 demographic

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