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74 Newspapers

A Background
In Britain, most newspapers are daily (= they come out are published every day); a few
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only come out on Sundays. Magazines are usually weekly (= they come out every week), or
monthly (= published every month).

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Some newspapers are tabloids (= small in size) e.g. The Mirror; others are called
broadsheets (= larger in size) e.g. The Times. In general, the tabloids represent the popular
press (short articles and lots of pictures) and the broadsheets represent the quality press
(longer articles and more ‘serious’). The largest circulation (= number of readers) is The Sun.

Contents
Most British papers contain the following:
home news (= news about Britain)
foreign/international news (= news about other countries)
business news
sports news
features (= longer articles about special subjects, e.g. a famous person or a political issue}
radio and TV programmes
weather forecast (= tells you what the weather will be like)
reviews {= when film, theatre and music critics write about new films, plays and records,
and give their opinion of them)

People

Editor: the person in control of the daily production.
Reporters/journalists: people who report news and write articles; many journalists are
freelance (= they work for themselves and are not employed by the newspaper).

Headlines
Certain words (usually very short) are often used in newspaper headlines. Here are some:
row (pronounced like ‘cow’) (= an argument) back (= to support)
quit (= to leave a job) hit (= to affect badly)
bid (n, v) (= an effort / a try / an attempt) talks (= discussions)
cut (v, n) (= to reduce / make less) key (= very important)

‘It said in the paper that ...’

When we refer to something in a newspaper we can use the verb say (NOT write), or the
expression according to:
It says in The Times that they’ve found the missing girl.
According to The Guardian, the missing girl was found last night.

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