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Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers, and a descriptive term applied to papers which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. Broadsheets measure roughly 29½ by 23½ inches (74.9 by 59.7 cm) per spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Historically, broadsheets were developed when in 1712 a tax was placed on British newspapers based on the number of their pages. The broadsheet has since emerged as the most popular format for the dissemination of printed news. The world's most widely circulated English language daily broadsheet is The Times of India, a leading English language daily newspaper from India, followed closely by USA Today from the United States. [Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Broadsheet newspapers tend to be more intellectual in content than their tabloid counterparts, examining stories in more depth and carrying sensationalist and celebrity stories less often. However, while this distinction is widely used, some tabloid papers (particularly the Daily Mail and Daily ExpressThe Daily Express is a British newspaper, currently tabloid, and it is owned by Richard Desmond. It was founded in 1900 and was bought in 1916 by the future Lord Beaverbrook. It was one of the first papers to carry gossip, sports, and women's features, an) point out that the term "tabloid" strictly refers only to the paper size, and often use phrases such as "broadsheet quality in a tabloid format". Broadsheets often publish supplement s, such as sports reviews and less news-oriented content (e.g. the Guardian's "G2" or the Times's "Times 2"), in tabloid format.
2 UK broadsheets
In the UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly, two major daily broadsheets are distributed nationwide, and four on a Sunday: two generally on the right wing politicallyPolitics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. Political science is, and two more left wing.:
- The Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. United Kingdom and Ireland The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland, published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. While ( The TimesThe Times is a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. The Times is published by News International, a subsidiary of the News Corporation group, owned by Rupert Murdoch. For much of its history, the newspaper was regarded as without rival, the 'ne is now a tabloid / compactA compact newspaper is a British term referring to a supposedly broadsheet- quality newspaper that comes in a tabloid-format. It first started when the Independent did a smaller format for London’s commuters to read on the train/ tube/ bus, as it was diff)
- The Daily Telegraph/ Sunday Telegraph
- The Guardian/ The Observer
- The Independent on Sunday ( The Independent is now a tabloid / compact)
Other prominent UK broadsheets include The Herald, which is not a true national newspaper, as it is mostly distributed in Scotland. The Financial Times is also printed and sold in other countries; as the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal, it lends its most detailed attention to financial news.
The average circulation of the Times is around 661,000 and the Telegraph sells 908,000 copies daily, while the circulations of the Guardian and Independent are more approximately 380,000 and 265,000. The Financial Times sells over 400,000 copies, the Scotsman maybe 70,000 (all figures July 2004).
