Daily Mail

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Daily Mail built?1896
2. What is the publication type?British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper
3. What is the parent company?Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT)
4. What is the Daily Mail and when did it start?The Daily Mail is a British newspaper that began in 1896, founded by brothers Alfred and Harold Harmsworth.
5. Why is the Daily Mail called a tabloid?It is called a tabloid because its pages are smaller than those of broadsheet papers, making it easier to read and cheaper to buy.

Middle-market newspaper: A newspaper targeting a readership that falls between the working class and the upper class.
Tabloid format: A newspaper size that is smaller than a broadsheet, often associated with more accessible content and larger headlines.
Editorial decisions: The choices made by newspaper editors about what stories to publish and how to present them.