Newspaper

There are many different forms of Newspapers, the varied design and information in the newspapers mean that there is a paper for everyone to read.

The styles of Newspaper are:

- National (e.g. The Sun, Daily Mail, The Times) 

- Regional (e.g. Shropshire Star, Chester Chronicle)

- Local (e.g. Whitchurch Herald, Market Drayton Advertiser)

- Broadsheet (e.g. The Guardian, The Times)

- Tabloid (e.g. The Sun, Daily Star)

- Berliner (e.g. The Economic Times)

- Compact (e.g. The I)

- Digital 

Now Newspaper companies such as News International have decided to create digital formats of their newspapers every day. The Independent for example have used Facebook to create an app where people can read it. Reading newspapers online is usually a lot more expensive than buying a newspaper, as you usually have to buy a subscription to the paper, whereas you can buy the paper whenever you want from the shop.

Newspapers can be biased, they mainly do this by being politically biased. For example, The Mirror is left wing Labour and The Mail is Conservative and The Guardian is Liberal Democrat. Newspapers are allowed to be biased but they must be accurate. Whereas broadcast news on the TV has to be unbiased and accurate. People tend to believe broadcast news a lot more, as there is moving image to back up stories. 

Newspapers are regulated by the PCC (Press Complaints Commission) they have a Code of Practice which is where anyone is allowed to make a complaint against an article under these categories:

1. Accuracy
2. Opportunity to reply
3. Privacy
4. Harassment
5. Intrusion into grief or shock
6. Children
7. Children in sex cases
8. Hospitals
9. Reporting of crime
10. Misrepresentation
11. Victims of sexual assault
12. Discrimination
13. Financial journalism
14. Confidential sources
15. Witness payments in criminal trials
16. Payment to criminals

 In 2011, one of the main complaints made was over the Phone Hacking scandal that involved the News of the World. The News of the World hacked into the voice mails and phones of Politicians, Celebrities, and also the voice mail account of Milly Dowler. A child who at the time was missing but was later found murdered. The hacking of phones had started in 2006, but the public was unaware until 2011. The News of the World broke many category rule from the PCC's Code of Practice.


Newspapers are also regulated by the Contempt of Court Act, the Official Secrets Act and Defamation.