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In 1969, a man named Rupert Murdoch bought the Sun Newspaper, and turned it into the most popular tabloid of today. ... In another bid to detain the awareness of the working class Murdoch decided to include the ‘page 3’ models, and this has now become a tabloid convention. On page three of every tabloid newspaper a scantily clad model, usually topless can be found, and it is for this reason, amongst others, that tabloids can be thought of as being sleazy ‘gutter press’. ... The front page of a tabloid is also usually very colourful. ... This helps to reinforce the newspapers identity through easily recognisable style features. It also helps to show the reader how the paper feels about the current issues, and what the newspapers attitude is. ... This shows the difference between the conventions of bold, witty headlines in tabloids and serious headlines used in broadsheets.
The short article length is also a convention of a tabloid newspaper. ... Another convention of tabloid papers such as the Sun is that the stories focus more on Human-interest stories, e. ...
A final convention of tabloid newspapers such as the sun is they way that Soap characters are referred to as if they were real people. ...
Tabloids have lots of conventions which makes them different to broadsheets, as I have outlined above, by looking in particular at the most widely read tabloid of today.
Approximate Word count = 1150
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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