British People Like Their Newspapers

By Selene Cid Montoya

About 70 percent of British people read a national newspaper every day and many also read a local newspaper. There are two main types of daily newspaper in Britain. The “broadsheets” contain national and International news and pages on topics such as money, the arts and travel. They are aimed at the educated reader.

Thought to give serious accounts of the news and reports on business matters and so on. You can read articles dealing with international news, the economy, politics, the arts, culture, daily life, sports, and it has a television guide. There are few colour pages during the weekend.

These are the four daily broadsheets:

The Times is very old, it started in 1785. It sells about 680,000 copies a day and it costs 50 pence.

The Guardian started in 1821, in Manchester. (Most newspapers started in London). It sells about 325,000 copies a day and it costs 55 pence.

The Daily Telegraph sells more copies than the others about 975,000 a day, and it costs 60 pence. It started in 1855.

The independent only began in 1986. It sells about 205,000 copies a day and it costs 60 pence.

Tabloids” contain national news but not a lot of international news, and they have a lot of pages on sport and the lives of famous people. The tabloids are more popular than the broadsheets.

The Daily Mail started in 1896 and it sells about 2,422,000 copies a day now. It costs 40 pence.

The Daily Express started in 1900. It sells about 878,000 copies a day and costs 40 pence.

The Daily Mirror started in 1903. It costs 35 pence and sells about 2,200,000 copies a day.

The Sun is quite new it started in 1964 but it is really popular. It sells about 3,452,000 copies a day. It costs 30 pence.

These are some newspaper that the British people read.

Bibliography:

http://www.mediaonline.net/es/reinounido/inglaterra/periodicos/16
http://www.mirror.co.uk/  
http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ 
http://www.independent.co.uk/      
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/       
http://www.express.co.uk/home 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 
(there are some websites where you can find newspapers to read).