Tabloid and broadsheet In the United Kingdom, newspapers can be classified by distribution as local or national and by page size as tabloids and broadsheets. There is often an implication that tabloids cater for more vulgar tastes than broadsheets. Within the tabloid category some titles are classed as red-tops because of the design of their front pages. Newspapers that consider themselves more serious often use this term deprecatingly.
Since newspapers began as a way to journal, or keep a record of, current events, the profession, which is involved in, the making of newspapers began to b…
