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'How do Tabloid and Broadsheet newspapers vary in the way headlines are written?' To compare the styles in which headlines are written between Tabloid and Broadsheet newspapers, I studied The Daily Mail as the Tabloid and The Daily Telegraph as the Broadsheet. As predicted there were not too many contrasts in the Tabloid and Broadsheet headlines. The first variation between the headlines of tabloid and broadsheet newspapers observed, was that the headlines were longer in Broadsheets than tabloids. Broadsheet headlines had an average length of 6.8 words compared to the average tabloid headline length of 5.4 words. The main reason why headlines are so short in newspapers, not just Tabloids, but Broadsheets also, is because you find a lot of ellipsis in them, where words are missed out. The words that are missed out are often articles or the verb 'to be'. Although you do find them in Broadsheets, they...

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