Template talk:UK newspapers

London freesheets

I've removed thelondonpaper, London Lite and City A.M. from the template, as they are not distributed outside London. While they are not "local" newspapers in the sense of, say, the Yorkshire Evening Post or Liverpool Echo in that they do not carry much local news, they could not be said to be "national" newspapers either. --RFBailey 22:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

The same can be said of Metro. Its not available throughout the UK, only in Urban Centres. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.14.66.190 (talk) 15:42, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

Express

Why is the Daily Express categorized as "middle market"? It's tending towards more stories about fashion. I like to use the red indicator for judging a newspaper; if it uses red as a form of emphasis in its headlines, it's a tabloid —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.84.234 (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Two possibilities

I'm not sure what the criteria for this template are intended to be, but should the Racing Post and/or News Line be added? The first is the specialist horse racing newspaper; the second is an obscure daily published by a small Trotskyist group. Both are intended to be national publications. Warofdreams talk 16:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Neutrality

Moved the Morning Star from 'quality press' to 'tabloids' as it seems a more appropriate description of the publication. But is 'Quality press' a neutral viewpoint as it is a value judgement? Even so, the obvious alternative term 'up-market' is less common usage to describe the posh papers. Philip Cross (talk) 22:01, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Confusion between paper size and target market

This topic was relocate here from WT:JOURNALISM. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 13:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

This template is largely sub-divided on the basis of paper size, but I think 'middle-market' is an incorrect sub-division as this denotes the target market of the paper, rather than paper size. It could also be argued that tabloid can be describing both the size of paper and its audience. As a wider point is there a better way of sub-dividing the papers - by target audience (e.g. middle-market, although this is clearly subjective), by publisher, or perhaps just split into dailies and sundays? Eldumpo (talk) 12:37, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

I think we'd better stick to size (and do we mean format measurements or distribution numbers?), and avoid target market for the very reason that it is clearly subjective. I don't see away to use target market without there being policy issues. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 13:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)