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:''This article is about the newspaper format. For the Irish current affairs programme, see Broadsheet (Irish TV series).''
'Broadsheet' is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more). The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of matter, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. published in 1618.
Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and Tabloid/Compact formats.
Many broadsheets measure roughly 29½ by 23½ inches (74.9 cm × 59.7 cm) per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread (84.1cm by 59.4cm).
In the United States the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are 15 inches wide by 22¾ inches long. However in efforts to save newsprint costs many U.S. newspapers (including The Wall Street Journal) are downsizing to 12 inches wide by 22¾ inches long for a folded page.
The two versions of the broadsheet are:
★ 'Full broadsheet' - The full broadsheet typically is folded vertically in half so that it forms four pages (the front page front and back and the back page front and back). The four pages are called a spread. Inside broadsheets are nested accordingly.
★ 'Half broadsheet' - The half broadsheet is usually an inside page that is not folded vertically and just includes a front and back.
In uncommon instances an entire newspaper can be a two-page half broadsheet or four-page full broadsheet. Totally self-contained advertising circulars inserted in a newspaper in the same format are referred to as broadsheets.
Broadsheets typically are also folded horizontally in half to accommodate newsstand display space. The horizontal fold however does not affect the page numbers and the content remains vertical. The most important newspaper stories are placed "above the (horizontal) fold." This contrasts with tabloids which typically do not have a horizontal fold (although tabloids usually have the four page to a sheet spread format).
Historically, broadsheets developed after the British in 1712 placed a tax on newspapers based on the number of their pages. Larger formats, however, had long been signs of status in printed objects, and still are in many places, and outside Britain the broadsheet developed for other reasons, including style and authority, unrelated to the British tax structure.
The broadsheet has since emerged as the most popular format for the dissemination of printed news. The world's most widely circulated English language daily broadsheet is ''The Times of India'', a leading English language daily newspaper from India, followed closely by ''The New York Times'' from the United States, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Modern printing facilities most efficiently print broadsheet sections in multiples of eight pages (with four front pages and four back pages). The broadsheet is then cut in half during the process. Thus the newsprint rolls used are defined by the width necessary to print four front pages. The width of a newsprint roll is called its ''web''. Thus the new 12 inch wide frontpage broadsheet newspapers in the United States use a ''48-inch web'' newsprint roll.
With profit margins narrowing for newspapers in the wake of competition from broadcast, cable television, and the internet, newspapers are looking to standardize the size of the newsprint roll. The Wall Street Journal with its 15-inch wide frontpage was printed on ''60-inch web'' newsprint. Early adopters in the downsizing of broadsheets initially used a ''50-inch web'' (12½ inch front pages). However the ''48-inch web'' is now rapidly becoming the definitive standard in the U.S. The New York Times held out on the downsizing until July 2006, saying it would stick to its ''54-inch web'' (13½ inch front page). However, the paper adopted the narrower format beginning Monday, August 6, 2007.
The smaller newspapers also have the advantage of being easier to handle particularly among commuters.
In some countries, especially the UK and USA, broadsheet newspapers are commonly perceived to be more intellectual in content than their tabloid counterparts, using their greater size to examine stories in more depth, while carrying less sensationalist and celebrity material. This distinction is most obvious on the front page: whereas tabloids tend to have a single story dominated by a headline, broadsheets allow two or more stories to be displayed, the most important at the top of the page - "above the fold." In other countries, such as Spain, a small format is the universal for newspapers - a popular, sensational press has had difficulty taking root - and the tabloid size has no such connotations.
Thus, the distinction regarding specific content is at best a generalization, and the term "tabloid" technically refers only to the paper's size. Serious newspapers in tabloid format, "El País" in Spain and others in Italy, do not make the distinction. Some tabloid-format papers (such as the ''Daily Mail'' and ''Daily Express'' in the UK) use phrases such as "broadsheet quality in a tabloid format" in an attempt to distinguish themselves from their "tabloid" reputation. In addition, broadsheets often publish supplements, such as sports reviews and less news-oriented content (e.g. the ''Guardian'''s "G2" (formerly) or the ''Times'''s "Times 2"), in tabloid format.
On the other hand, a few newspapers, such as the German Bild-Zeitung and others throughout central Europe are unashamedly tabloid in content, but still use the physical broadsheet format.
In the UK, one major daily broadsheet is distributed nationwide, and two on a Sunday:
★ ''The Daily Telegraph''/''Sunday Telegraph''; broadly right-wing
★ ''The Sunday Times'' ("The Times" is now a tabloid / compact); both are broadly centre-right
Other prominent UK broadsheets include ''The Herald'' and ''The Press and Journal'', which are not true national newspapers, as they are mostly distributed in Scotland. The ''Financial Times'' is also printed and sold in other countries; as the British equivalent of the ''Wall Street Journal'', it lends its most detailed attention to financial news. These UK broadsheet have been used for Millwall bricks.
The average circulation of the ''Times'' is around 656,000 and the ''Telegraph'' sells 908,000 copies daily, while the circulations of the ''Guardian'' and ''Independent'', both of them previously published in broadsheet format, are approximately 380,000 and 240,000. The ''Financial Times'' sells over 440,000 copies, the ''Scotsman'' approximately 70,000 (all figures July 2006).
In 2003 ''The Independent'' started concurrent production of both broadsheet and tabloid ("compact") editions, carrying exactly the same content. ''The Times'' did likewise, but with less apparent success, with readers vocally opposing the change. The daily ''Independent'' ceased to be available in broadsheet format in May 2004, and ''The Times'' followed suit from November 2004; ''The Scotsman'' is also now published only in tabloid format. ''The Guardian'' switched to the "Berliner" or "midi" format found in some other European countries (slightly larger than a traditional tabloid) on 12 September, 2005. ''The Courier-Mail'', the only daily newspaper in Brisbane, Australia, also changed from broadsheet to tabloid format on March 13, 2006. The only Malaysian broadsheet, ''New Straits Times'', also changed to tabloid in March 2005.
The main motivation cited for this shift is that commuters prefer papers which they can hold easily on public transport, and it is presumably hoped that other readers will also find the smaller formats more convenient. It remains to be seen how this shake-up will affect the usage of the term "broadsheet".
Notably, the Daily Telegraph increased its lead in circulation over the The Times when the latter switched to compact size - this is attributed to the backlash of traditional broadsheet readers.
★ ''La Nación'', the only broadsheet in the country
★ ''The Age'', Melbourne (a planned move away from the broadsheet format was announced on 26 April 2007)[1]
★ ''The Australian'', a national newspaper
★ ''The Canberra Times''
★ ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Sydney (a planned move away from the broadsheet format was announced on 26 April 2007)[2]
★ ''Sunraysia Daily''
Almost all Brazilian newspapers are broadsheets, including major publications like:
★ ''O Globo'', Rio de Janeiro
★ ''Jornal do Brasil'', Rio de Janeiro (subscribers' edition-only since April 16 2006, when the newsstand edition switched to Berliner)
★ ''Folha de S. Paulo'', São Paulo
★ ''O Estado de São Paulo'', São Paulo
★ ''The Globe and Mail''
★ ''The National Post''
★ ''Toronto Star''
★ ''The Gazette'', Montreal
★ ''La Presse'', Montreal
★ ''Le Devoir'', Montreal
★ ''The Ottawa Citizen'', Ottawa
★ ''Winnipeg Free Press'', Winnipeg
★ ''Halifax Chronicle-Herald''
★ ''The Telegram'', St. John's
★ ''The Edmonton Journal'', Edmonton
★ ''The Calgary Herald'', Calgary
★ ''The Vancouver Sun'', Vancouver
★ ''El Mercurio
★ ''Jyllands-Posten''
★ ''Politiken''
★ ''Listín Diario''
★ ''Hoy''
★ ''La Información'', Santiago de los Caballeros
★ ''Helsingin Sanomat''
★ ''Aamulehti''
★ ''Turun Sanomat''
★ ''Kaleva''
★ ''Die Zeit''
★ ''Die Welt''
★ ''Süddeutsche Zeitung''
★ ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''
★ ''Kathimerini''
★ ''The DNA''
★ ''Deccan Herald''
★ ''The Hindu''
★ ''The Hindustan Times''
★ ''The Indian Express''
★ ''The Statesman''
★ ''The Telegraph''
★ ''The Times of India''
Almost all major newspapers in India are broadsheets. Tabloids are mostly found in small circulation local or rural papers.
★ ''The Irish Times''
★ ''The Irish Examiner''
★ ''The Irish Independent''
★ ''Haaretz''
★ ''The Jerusalem Post''
★ ''La Stampa'', Turin
★ ''Corriere della Sera'', Milan
★ ''de Volkskrant''
★ ''NRC Handelsblad''
★ ''The New Zealand Herald'', Auckland
★ ''The Waikato Times'', Hamilton
★ ''The Dominion Post'', Wellington
★ ''The Press'', Christchurch
★ ''The Otago Daily Times'', Dunedin
★ ''The Taranaki Daily News'', New Plymouth
★ ''The News International''
★ ''Daily Mail (Pakistan)''
★ ''Dawn (newspaper)''
★ ''The Star (Pakistan)''
★ ''El Comercio'', Lima
★ ''Philippine Daily Inquirer
★ ''The Philippine Star
★ ''Manila Bulletin
★ ''The Manila Times
★ ''The Daily Tribune (The most controversial Broadsheet, because of carrying more Anti-Arroyo Stories.)
★ ''Gazeta Wyborcza''
★ ''Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)''
★ ''Dziennik''
★ ''Expresso'', Lisboa
★ ''Izvestia''
★ ''Beeld''
★ ''The Financial Times''
★ ''The Daily Telegraph'' (The Sunday Telegraph)
★ ''The Herald
★ ''The Press and Journal
★ ''The Sunday Times
Almost all major U.S. newspapers are broadsheets, including major publications like:
★ ''The Boston Globe''
★ ''The Chicago Tribune''
★ ''Houston Chronicle''
★ ''Los Angeles Times
★ ''The New York Times''
★ ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''
★ ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''
★ ''USA Today''
★ ''The Wall Street Journal''
★ ''The Washington Post''
★ ''The Kansas City Star''
★ ''The Minneapolis Star Tribune''
★ ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
★ Berliner (format)
★ Compact (newspaper)
★ Tabloid
★ List of newspapers
Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ''Le Monde'' is in the Berliner format. ''The Guardian'' is in the British broadsheet format (or was, until September 2005), whereas the ''Daily Mail'' is a tabloid, and ''The Times'' a "compact". ''Berliner Zeitung'' and ''Neues Deutschland'' are of sizes between broadsheet and Berliner. A piece of white A4 paper is placed in front for scale.
'Broadsheet' is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more). The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of matter, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. published in 1618.
Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and Tabloid/Compact formats.
Description
Many broadsheets measure roughly 29½ by 23½ inches (74.9 cm × 59.7 cm) per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread (84.1cm by 59.4cm).
In the United States the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are 15 inches wide by 22¾ inches long. However in efforts to save newsprint costs many U.S. newspapers (including The Wall Street Journal) are downsizing to 12 inches wide by 22¾ inches long for a folded page.
The two versions of the broadsheet are:
★ 'Full broadsheet' - The full broadsheet typically is folded vertically in half so that it forms four pages (the front page front and back and the back page front and back). The four pages are called a spread. Inside broadsheets are nested accordingly.
★ 'Half broadsheet' - The half broadsheet is usually an inside page that is not folded vertically and just includes a front and back.
In uncommon instances an entire newspaper can be a two-page half broadsheet or four-page full broadsheet. Totally self-contained advertising circulars inserted in a newspaper in the same format are referred to as broadsheets.
Broadsheets typically are also folded horizontally in half to accommodate newsstand display space. The horizontal fold however does not affect the page numbers and the content remains vertical. The most important newspaper stories are placed "above the (horizontal) fold." This contrasts with tabloids which typically do not have a horizontal fold (although tabloids usually have the four page to a sheet spread format).
Historically, broadsheets developed after the British in 1712 placed a tax on newspapers based on the number of their pages. Larger formats, however, had long been signs of status in printed objects, and still are in many places, and outside Britain the broadsheet developed for other reasons, including style and authority, unrelated to the British tax structure.
The broadsheet has since emerged as the most popular format for the dissemination of printed news. The world's most widely circulated English language daily broadsheet is ''The Times of India'', a leading English language daily newspaper from India, followed closely by ''The New York Times'' from the United States, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Printing considerations
Modern printing facilities most efficiently print broadsheet sections in multiples of eight pages (with four front pages and four back pages). The broadsheet is then cut in half during the process. Thus the newsprint rolls used are defined by the width necessary to print four front pages. The width of a newsprint roll is called its ''web''. Thus the new 12 inch wide frontpage broadsheet newspapers in the United States use a ''48-inch web'' newsprint roll.
With profit margins narrowing for newspapers in the wake of competition from broadcast, cable television, and the internet, newspapers are looking to standardize the size of the newsprint roll. The Wall Street Journal with its 15-inch wide frontpage was printed on ''60-inch web'' newsprint. Early adopters in the downsizing of broadsheets initially used a ''50-inch web'' (12½ inch front pages). However the ''48-inch web'' is now rapidly becoming the definitive standard in the U.S. The New York Times held out on the downsizing until July 2006, saying it would stick to its ''54-inch web'' (13½ inch front page). However, the paper adopted the narrower format beginning Monday, August 6, 2007.
The smaller newspapers also have the advantage of being easier to handle particularly among commuters.
Connotations
In some countries, especially the UK and USA, broadsheet newspapers are commonly perceived to be more intellectual in content than their tabloid counterparts, using their greater size to examine stories in more depth, while carrying less sensationalist and celebrity material. This distinction is most obvious on the front page: whereas tabloids tend to have a single story dominated by a headline, broadsheets allow two or more stories to be displayed, the most important at the top of the page - "above the fold." In other countries, such as Spain, a small format is the universal for newspapers - a popular, sensational press has had difficulty taking root - and the tabloid size has no such connotations.
Thus, the distinction regarding specific content is at best a generalization, and the term "tabloid" technically refers only to the paper's size. Serious newspapers in tabloid format, "El País" in Spain and others in Italy, do not make the distinction. Some tabloid-format papers (such as the ''Daily Mail'' and ''Daily Express'' in the UK) use phrases such as "broadsheet quality in a tabloid format" in an attempt to distinguish themselves from their "tabloid" reputation. In addition, broadsheets often publish supplements, such as sports reviews and less news-oriented content (e.g. the ''Guardian'''s "G2" (formerly) or the ''Times'''s "Times 2"), in tabloid format.
On the other hand, a few newspapers, such as the German Bild-Zeitung and others throughout central Europe are unashamedly tabloid in content, but still use the physical broadsheet format.
UK broadsheets
In the UK, one major daily broadsheet is distributed nationwide, and two on a Sunday:
★ ''The Daily Telegraph''/''Sunday Telegraph''; broadly right-wing
★ ''The Sunday Times'' ("The Times" is now a tabloid / compact); both are broadly centre-right
Other prominent UK broadsheets include ''The Herald'' and ''The Press and Journal'', which are not true national newspapers, as they are mostly distributed in Scotland. The ''Financial Times'' is also printed and sold in other countries; as the British equivalent of the ''Wall Street Journal'', it lends its most detailed attention to financial news. These UK broadsheet have been used for Millwall bricks.
The average circulation of the ''Times'' is around 656,000 and the ''Telegraph'' sells 908,000 copies daily, while the circulations of the ''Guardian'' and ''Independent'', both of them previously published in broadsheet format, are approximately 380,000 and 240,000. The ''Financial Times'' sells over 440,000 copies, the ''Scotsman'' approximately 70,000 (all figures July 2006).
Switch to smaller sizes
In 2003 ''The Independent'' started concurrent production of both broadsheet and tabloid ("compact") editions, carrying exactly the same content. ''The Times'' did likewise, but with less apparent success, with readers vocally opposing the change. The daily ''Independent'' ceased to be available in broadsheet format in May 2004, and ''The Times'' followed suit from November 2004; ''The Scotsman'' is also now published only in tabloid format. ''The Guardian'' switched to the "Berliner" or "midi" format found in some other European countries (slightly larger than a traditional tabloid) on 12 September, 2005. ''The Courier-Mail'', the only daily newspaper in Brisbane, Australia, also changed from broadsheet to tabloid format on March 13, 2006. The only Malaysian broadsheet, ''New Straits Times'', also changed to tabloid in March 2005.
The main motivation cited for this shift is that commuters prefer papers which they can hold easily on public transport, and it is presumably hoped that other readers will also find the smaller formats more convenient. It remains to be seen how this shake-up will affect the usage of the term "broadsheet".
Notably, the Daily Telegraph increased its lead in circulation over the The Times when the latter switched to compact size - this is attributed to the backlash of traditional broadsheet readers.
Notable broadsheets
Argentina
★ ''La Nación'', the only broadsheet in the country
Australia
★ ''The Age'', Melbourne (a planned move away from the broadsheet format was announced on 26 April 2007)[1]
★ ''The Australian'', a national newspaper
★ ''The Canberra Times''
★ ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Sydney (a planned move away from the broadsheet format was announced on 26 April 2007)[2]
★ ''Sunraysia Daily''
Brazil
Almost all Brazilian newspapers are broadsheets, including major publications like:
★ ''O Globo'', Rio de Janeiro
★ ''Jornal do Brasil'', Rio de Janeiro (subscribers' edition-only since April 16 2006, when the newsstand edition switched to Berliner)
★ ''Folha de S. Paulo'', São Paulo
★ ''O Estado de São Paulo'', São Paulo
Canada
★ ''The Globe and Mail''
★ ''The National Post''
★ ''Toronto Star''
★ ''The Gazette'', Montreal
★ ''La Presse'', Montreal
★ ''Le Devoir'', Montreal
★ ''The Ottawa Citizen'', Ottawa
★ ''Winnipeg Free Press'', Winnipeg
★ ''Halifax Chronicle-Herald''
★ ''The Telegram'', St. John's
★ ''The Edmonton Journal'', Edmonton
★ ''The Calgary Herald'', Calgary
★ ''The Vancouver Sun'', Vancouver
Chile
★ ''El Mercurio
Denmark
★ ''Jyllands-Posten''
★ ''Politiken''
Dominican Republic
★ ''Listín Diario''
★ ''Hoy''
★ ''La Información'', Santiago de los Caballeros
Finland
★ ''Helsingin Sanomat''
★ ''Aamulehti''
★ ''Turun Sanomat''
★ ''Kaleva''
Germany
★ ''Die Zeit''
★ ''Die Welt''
★ ''Süddeutsche Zeitung''
★ ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''
Greece
★ ''Kathimerini''
India
★ ''The DNA''
★ ''Deccan Herald''
★ ''The Hindu''
★ ''The Hindustan Times''
★ ''The Indian Express''
★ ''The Statesman''
★ ''The Telegraph''
★ ''The Times of India''
Almost all major newspapers in India are broadsheets. Tabloids are mostly found in small circulation local or rural papers.
Ireland
★ ''The Irish Times''
★ ''The Irish Examiner''
★ ''The Irish Independent''
Israel
★ ''Haaretz''
★ ''The Jerusalem Post''
Italy
★ ''La Stampa'', Turin
★ ''Corriere della Sera'', Milan
The Netherlands
★ ''de Volkskrant''
★ ''NRC Handelsblad''
New Zealand
★ ''The New Zealand Herald'', Auckland
★ ''The Waikato Times'', Hamilton
★ ''The Dominion Post'', Wellington
★ ''The Press'', Christchurch
★ ''The Otago Daily Times'', Dunedin
★ ''The Taranaki Daily News'', New Plymouth
Pakistan
★ ''The News International''
★ ''Daily Mail (Pakistan)''
★ ''Dawn (newspaper)''
★ ''The Star (Pakistan)''
Peru
★ ''El Comercio'', Lima
Philippines
★ ''Philippine Daily Inquirer
★ ''The Philippine Star
★ ''Manila Bulletin
★ ''The Manila Times
★ ''The Daily Tribune (The most controversial Broadsheet, because of carrying more Anti-Arroyo Stories.)
Poland
★ ''Gazeta Wyborcza''
★ ''Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)''
★ ''Dziennik''
Portugal
★ ''Expresso'', Lisboa
Russia
★ ''Izvestia''
South Africa
★ ''Beeld''
United Kingdom
★ ''The Financial Times''
★ ''The Daily Telegraph'' (The Sunday Telegraph)
★ ''The Herald
★ ''The Press and Journal
★ ''The Sunday Times
United States
Almost all major U.S. newspapers are broadsheets, including major publications like:
★ ''The Boston Globe''
★ ''The Chicago Tribune''
★ ''Houston Chronicle''
★ ''Los Angeles Times
★ ''The New York Times''
★ ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''
★ ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''
★ ''USA Today''
★ ''The Wall Street Journal''
★ ''The Washington Post''
★ ''The Kansas City Star''
★ ''The Minneapolis Star Tribune''
★ ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
See also
★ Berliner (format)
★ Compact (newspaper)
★ Tabloid
★ List of newspapers
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