When you study abroad, you usally feel the need to keep well-informed about current affairs both in your current residence and in your home country. You have to get familiar with your new social environment and you usually get even more interested in what's happening in your country.
Although the readership of newspapers has fallen dramatically in the last decade, they are still a good option to keep updated and well informed. But there are different types of newspapers focused on quite distinct purposes: broadsheet and tabloids.
Find out here which one would be more convenient depending on what you were looking for.
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BROADSHEET: The Guardian
ReplyDeleteTABLOID: The Sun
THE GUARDIAN
Group calling itself IRA claims it sent parcel bombs to UK addresses
THE SUN
‘IRA’ claims responsibility for four bombs found in London and Scotland as cops warn there could be one more out there
In this case, the broadsheet uses a more formal language but the information is much shorter than the information that gives the tabloid. The Sun gives a lot of evidences about the attempt of attack. It also provides videos and photos which make it easier for the readers.
I have found the same piece of news (sport new) in two different types of media: The Sun, a tabloid, and The Guardian, a broadsheet. There are some differences. The text in The Sun is shorter, less objective and more focused on what the player said than on what really happened in the match. Also it has about two or three photos more than the news in The Guardian.
ReplyDeleteComparison between The Guardian (broadsheet) and The Sun (tabloid),
ReplyDeleteWe see that broadsheet are more serious that tabloids, broadsheet and tabloids can have piece of news in common like Brexit but in general in tabloid we see more sport, more gossip, etc. Tabloid are shorter giving information and headlines are more dramatic in order to impress the reader:
Example, Brexit headline at The Guardian and The Sun:
"Cox: risk of remaining in backstop reduced but not eliminated".
"Theresa May’s last-ditch Brexit plan torpedoed by her own top lawyer Geoffrey Cox who says Britain could be tied to EU FOREVER"
The first headline is made to give information to the reader and the second one wants to make feelings. It is easier to read a tabloid than a broadsheet because tabloid does not have difficult information
Once you have arrived to the country you are going to be living at the following months or years, it is time to adapt to a new life and surroundings, and that includes being update with the news and what is going on in that country. To do that, you have two options: Reading broadsheets or reading tabloids, and it depends only on your preferences.
ReplyDeleteI have found out that broadsheets are more objective and got much more text that tabloids have. Tabloids also have less text and are less objective than broadsheets. Also, if you aren’t very good at the mother language of the country your are going be living in, probably, it would be easier for you to star reading tabloids (because there are much easier to read) and when you feel ready to read broadsheets, read them.
Carmen Fernández León, 2º BTO B
If I study in a university out of my country I will want to live on campus because I want to be near people studying the same as me. So, I am more concerned about the people than the accommodation because you can change something of the room but If you share a flat with people you will have to be with them for a long time and you can’t change them. Then, I would like to live on campus and spend my free time with people doing common activities and going out. I’d like to make friends with responsible people who go to study at the library and that they are easygoing, mature and independent.
ReplyDeletePatricia Vargas Niño.
The are several differences between broadsheet and tabloids. I have based on The Guardian newspaper. Since technology had advanced almost all of newspaper had changed their broadsheet format to a tabloid, and The Guardian has also changed it (without leaving away their broadsheet format).
ReplyDeleteThe main difference that I have found is that in a tabloid the headline usually includes a pun or a joke whereas in a broadsheet, the headline are more serious rather than making jokes.
Furthermore if we read inside of both formats we can see that the tabloid focus more on gossip stories whereas the other one focuses more on international news such us politics and serious problems in the world.
In my opinion tabloids are easy to read and can keep you entertained for a time but on the other hand a broadsheet gives you more detailed and serious information.
Angela Wang
Firstly, I took for example of a broadsheet “The Guardian” (“Brexit: Theresa May dashes to EU begging for delay - but faces major clash”) and a tabloid “Daily Mirror” (“Brexit: 5 fast facts explaining what happened last night - and what comes next”), about the Brexit in the UK. The two articles speak about when the UK is going to go out of the EU. In the broadsheet, there are long articles and they use fewer pictures than the tabloid, which uses shorter articles and more pictures. In addition, The Guardian talks more formally and in an objective way than the Daily Mirror, which usually tends to write about gossip news and to adopt a more subjective. vision
ReplyDeletePatricia Vargas Niño.
Comparison between a broadsheet and a tabloid:
ReplyDeleteI’m going to compare the same piece of news on a broadsheet and on a tabloid about brexit.
The Guardian’s headline is “Brexit: cross-party talks to restart as Tories step up efforts to oust May” that show us that is more serious than The sun’s headline:“Theresa May told she has ‘no chance’ of passing Brexit deal in time to stop EU poll”.
The information on a tabloid is shorter than on a broadsheet and they’re focused on gossip ,fashion,health and sports news. It is supposed that the broadsheets give us a objective and realistic information usually about politics, accidents or important events.
TABLOID : Daily news
ReplyDeleteBROADSHEETS : The New York Times
The first that capture our attention is the colour and the size. Tabloid is plein of colours and pictures, on the contrary, broadsheet is black and white and it has a few pictures. The size is different too, broadsheets are bigger than tabloids.
Relative to the information. Broadsheets gives more details and write more information. Tabloids give a headline but the text is shorter. We can say that the information showed at a tabloid are mainly rumors and the information showed at a broadsheet are daily news.
María Díaz, 2 Bach C.