The Size of My Newspaper.

I thought that i needed to do a post about the size of my newspaper because it greatly affects the amount of content, type of newspaper and my audience. It can also affect the image (not visually) i want to come across.

My newspaper is going to be informatively tabloid as i want to target the educated market but still be a little less serious. Tabloids are usually 'tabloid size' ("roughly 17 by 11 inches (432 by 279 mm)" and commonly "half the size of a broadsheet") and want to go by this still even though i am planning to have a new take on the traditional weekly newspaper.

I have done a bit of research into this and found an article on BBC News which argues about the idea of tabloid newspapers not being tabloid size and broadsheet newspapers not being the traditional braodsheet size and how it will never be clear or not. The rules are now broken and it will be hard to define what newspapers are what. It is quite an interesting article and i suggest a read:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3714293.stm

Overall i have decided that i want to stick to the traditional tadloid dimensions so that if i was to really put this newspaper on the market it will be similier to print and also it will be easier for me to make on publisher in order to fit everything i wanted in.