Comparing Two Newspapers

Comparison of two newspapers

In this essay I intend to compare two newspaper front pages. One from ‘The Sunday Times’ and the other from ‘The Mail On Sunday’. Both papers contain the same story as their main article and the journalists describe the stories in full, on the 6th April 2003. The stories are about American tanks moving in on the Iraqi capital city, ‘Baghdad’. Although I intend to focus on the stories, I will also discuss the differences in the layout between the broadsheet and tabloid front pages. There are many more similarities than differences between broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, yet each type does tend to have certain characteristics.

Before I begin to compare the two newspapers, I will tell you about the newspapers’ format. ‘The Mail’ is a tabloid newspaper which is a smaller size format than ‘ The Times’, it is written on A3 paper whilst ‘The Times’ is twice as big as that. ‘The Mail’ is written for a lower socio-economic grou...