Newspaper language conventions

Types of newspapers

• Broadsheets (quality tabloids)- The Guardian, The Times, The daily Telegraph, The I, The Financial Times.
• Tabloid- The sun, Daily star
• Mid Market Newspaper- Daily mail, Daily Express
• Local Newspaper- The Essex Chronicle
• Freesheets- Metro
• Sunday Newspaper- The Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday

Mid Market tabloid

• Typography- Dramatic headlines in large bold uppercase font (like a tabloid). Sometimes called a black top.
• Traditional British news values- Daily mail with the royal family.
• Headlines can explore moral panic- NHS, knife crime, weather.
• Uses high impact tabloid style headlines but more text than tabloid.
• Direct informal mood of address.
• Use of pronouns to implied shared beliefs.
• Meant to be more subjective than objective.
• Cross between broadsheet and tabloid, soft and hard news.

Soft News- Celebrity gossip, sport, entertainment, fashion, art and culture and human interest.
Hard News- Politics, business and the economy, industry and technology, science, war and conflict, health and education.

Broadsheets

• Text to image ratio is much higher, more in depth.
• Sophisticated, formal language
• Objective / balanced news
• Largely hard news 
• Larger format, smaller typography
• Main story, small letters, more words

Serif- Simple, straight lines typography.

Sans Serif- More complicated typography, less straight lines.