The Media: Newspapers There are two main types of newspaper: the tabloid and the broadsheet. The tabloids are easily recognised as the smaller ones whilst the larger ones are the broadsheets. We read, analysed and scrutinised one of each of the different types of newspapers in order to compare them and find their advantages, disadvantages, layout and readability. The main difference that you can easily spot when you first pick up each of these newspapers, is the fact that the broadsheet is about twice as big as the tabloid. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the tabloid has less information and stories in it as we found out w