The Observer will follow suit - launching in tabloid format on Sunday 21 January. View from Amol Rajan - the BBC's Media Editor For newspaper readers, all redesigns are guilty until proven innocent.

The name tabloid is itself a derivation of ‘tablet’ — news in convenient and easily ... Sands analysed that over the years, the tabloid format became synonymous with lurid and sensational ...

The format is similar for either a tabloid or a broadsheet. Stories tend to start with the main news facts: what happened, when, who was involved and why it happened? Then, in the main body of the ...