Types of newspapers

BROADSHEETS

This is an example of a British broadsheet:

  

-A Broadsheet is the largest type of newspaper. It covers all national and news and is often serious and formal.
They are vertically longer than horizontal and are typically 22 inches / 559 millimetres or more.
In the 17th century in England, Broadsheets were the best way to spread news and came out weekly or regularly. They were developed after the British placed tax on newspapers based on the number of pages although outside Britain, the broadsheet developed for reasons such as style and authority.
The purpose of a broadsheet was for posting royal acts and official notes. Eventually people started to use broadsheets as a source of political activism such as printing speeches.

There are two version of a broadsheet newspaper:
- Full Broadsheet which is typically folded in half so that it forms four pages.
- Half Broadsheet which is an inside page that is not folded vertically and jut includes a front and back.

Connotations
In countries such as Australia, Canada, UK and the US, the broadsheets are perceived to be more intellectual in content rather than tabloids, as the greater size examines stories in more depth and has less information about celebrity material.
Broadsheets display two or more stories with the most important at the top of the page.

The possible target group of a broadsheet newspaper is likely to be business people who are educated and interested in business and government affairs.

Here are examples of the target group that a broadsheet aims at: