"Newspaper is a piece of paper that informs certain individuals with the information that matters", This is how Charles .A Dana, editor from 1867 to 1897 of the legendary newspaper "The new York sun "defines newspaper. Leiter, Harriss & Johnson, 2000 . In reality two types of newspaper exist, namely tabloid and broadsheet, so the following essay will discuss the characteristics of both tabloid and broadsheet based on three South African newspaper known as "The daily sun ", "The star " the mail and guardian and the Sowetan Sunday Sun ". It will in brief include...
discussed the characteristics of both tabloids and broadsheet

newspaper based on three south African newspaper The daily sun , the star mail and

guardian and Sunday sun . It has discover that certain newspapers such as mail and

guardian and the citizen are somewhere in between tabloids and broadsheet. Secondly

it has discussed the issue of audience as the determiner of news in a newspaper ,

newspaper publish their stories in connection with the level of literacy of their readers