Tabloid and Broadsheet Newspapers

There is a great difference between tabloid newspaper and Broadsheet newspaper. The first difference is in the layout of the newspapers. The tabloid newspaper is printed on an A3 paper whereas the broadsheet newspaper is printed on an A2 paper. Tabloid papers make more use of the front-page in designing their pictures and headlines. If you look at a tabloid newspaper carefully, you will find that the front-page is covered more than half of its total length with some celebrity picture. In addition, the content of the tabloid newspaper is very different from the broadsheet newspaper. The broadsheet newspaper uses the content that is mainly meant for educated people.

Broadsheet newspaper is purchased by those people who are keenly interested in knowing about the useful news and happenings in the world. Moreover, the tabloid newspaper is meant for all ordinary people who are not highly educated and contains all kinds of contents including gossips, articles, pictures, cartoons, etc. Apart from that Broadsheet newspaper are much less colour for then the tabloid newspapers. Tabloid newspapers have more number of pictures, the headlines are bold, and coloured due to which it looks more colourful. In addition, a tabloid newspaper looks more like a magazine or a booklet where as the broadsheet newspaper looks like much different in length and breadth then the tabloid newspaper. The broadsheet newspaper will give you point-to-point details or news about a particular object or person but in a tabloid newspaper, you will find the information exaggerated in order to increase the number of their newspaper sales.