Newspaper Research

Mind-maps from book

As part of my Message delivery brief  I will research different British newspapers with a brief summary look at their formats, layout, design and political leaning. First I looked into the types of British newspapers, online websites and news programmes out there: 

Broadsheet:                                 

• Guardian
• Telegraph
• Times
• Financial Times

Tabloid:

• Metro
• Sun
• Mirror
• Daily Star 
• The People

Regional:

• Express & Echo 
• Yorkshire Post 
• Express & Star 
• Wigan Local 
• Lancashire Telegraph 

News Programmes: 

• BBC/Channel 4/ITV News
• This Morning 
• One Show 
• Mock the Week 
• 8 out of 10 Cats 
• Loose Women 

Online News Sites: 

• Reddit
• This Morning 
• Bing 
• Google 
• BBC News
• Yahoo 
• Fox 
• Twitter/Facebook 
• ITV News

Broadsheet newspaper: A broadsheet newspaper is the largest of newspaper formats characterised with long vertical pages and columns. It looks very traditional.  The Daily Telegraph is an example of a Broadsheet newspaper and is centre-right which is conservative. 

Tabloid newspaper: A tabloid newspaper has a compact page design a lot smaller than a broadsheet. 

An example of a tabloid newspaper is The Sun which focuses a lot on celebrity culture and gossip, its a very lively newspaper. The Sun is right-wing populism. It is the ninth-largest circulation of newspaper in the world.

Berliner: The Guardian is an example of a Berliner newspaper, it was the first newspaper to use the Berliner format in the UK. The Berliner format is slightly taller and marginally wider than the tabloids compact format yet narrower and shorter than the broadsheet format.

Freesheet: A newspaper which is free, for an example Metro (owned by the Daily Mail) contains a mix of articles. It contains bite size news rather than big political or world news. The mix of articles are about travel, home, style, celebrity life,  as well as extensive arts coverage and entertainment listings. Its a newspaper designed to read by commuters. The look of the Metro is a white background with a blue header, its designed to look easy legible.