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The passage discusses the history and structure of newspapers, including their different types and sections.

Broadsheets and tabloids are the two types of newspapers mentioned. Broadsheets aim to provide comprehensive coverage while tabloids use more photographs and sensational stories.

The six main sections discussed are News, Opinion, Entertainment, Sports, Lifestyle, and Classifieds.

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NEWSPAPER

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and
is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.

Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often
include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, birth
notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.

Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called
newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online
newspapers.

Newspapers developed in the 17th century, as information sheets for merchants. By the early
19th century, many cities in Europe, as well as North and South America, published newspapers.

 Newspapers are a printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly)


 Consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles,
advertisements, and correspondence.
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TYPES OF NEWSPAPER
1) Broadsheets
2) Tabloid

Broadsheets: - Quality papers which include long information articles and editorial comments
and comparatively few illustrations.

Its aim is to provide comprehensive coverage and analysis of the international and
national news of the day.

Tabloid: - Newspaper having half the size of those of a standard newspaper. Typically, popular
in style photographs and sensational stories.

The 6 Sections of Newspaper

 The News Section


 The Opinion Section
 The Entertainment Section
 The Sport Section
 The Lifestyle Section
 The Classified Section

The News Section

 Always first in a newspaper.


 The reason for the existence of the newspaper.
 Frontpage, local news and international news.

The Opinion Section

 Editorial Writing
 Editorial Cartooning

The Entertainment Section


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Personalities can be found on the Entertainment News which contain events and news about
well-known individuals.

The Sport Section

 Updated news, issues and others about all the sports.


 National sports.

The Lifestyle Section

 Lifestyle section is all about feature articles about something interesting.


 Topics such as food, fashion, the arts, trends, music, film, gaming, and a variety of other
interests.

Classified Ads Section

In that it allows private individuals to solicit sales for products and services.

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