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noun ADJ. daily, evening, morning, Sunday, weekly | today's, yesterday's | independent, left-wing, right-wing | local, national, provincial, regional | broadsheet, quality | tabloid | popular | financial | folded, rolled-up QUANT. copy Have you got a copy of yesterday's newspaper? | edition today's edition of the newspaper VERB + NEWSPAPER buy, get, take Do you take a daily newspaper? | flick through, read | print, produce, publish | edit, write for/in | appear in Her article appeared in the Saturday newspaper. | get into NEWSPAPER + VERB come out The newspaper comes out every Saturday. NEWSPAPER + NOUN article, clipping, column, coverage, cutting | baron, magnate, owner | correspondent, editor, reporter | kiosk, shop, stand PREP. in a/the ~ an article in a local newspaper | on a/the ~ She got a job on a national newspaper.
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verbs
read a newspaper
• Which newspaper do you read?
get a newspaper
(= buy one regularly )
• We don’t get a newspaper; we tend to watch the news on TV.
see/read something in the newspaper
• I saw in the newspaper that he had died.
appear in a newspaper
• Her photo appeared in all the newspapers.
a newspaper reports something
(= has an article on something )
• The newspapers reported that the police were treating the death as a suicide.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + newspaper
a national newspaper
• The story was in all the national newspapers.
a local newspaper
• The store advertises in the local newspaper.
a daily/weekly/Sunday newspaper
(= one that is published every day/week/Sunday )
• Do you get a daily newspaper?
a tabloid newspaper
(= a small-sized newspaper, especially one with not much serious news )
• Their wedding made the headlines in all the tabloid newspapers.
a quality newspaper
British English (= a newspaper with a lot of serious news and good writing )
• The story has not been given as much coverage in the quality newspapers.
newspaper + NOUN
a newspaper article/report/story
• I read quite an interesting newspaper report on the war.
a newspaper headline
• ‘Wine is good for you’ announced a recent newspaper headline.
a newspaper column
(= a regular article in a newspaper written by a particular journalist )
• She writes a regular newspaper column about gardening.
a newspaper clipping/cutting
(= a story cut out of a newspaper )
• I found some old newspaper cuttings of the band's first concert in Liverpool.
a newspaper reporter
• She was fed up with being followed by newspaper reporters.
a newspaper editor
• Newspaper editors have a lot of power.
a newspaper proprietor
British English (= owner )
• Ultimately, it’s the newspaper proprietor who decides what goes into the newspaper.
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newspaper
• The New York Times is a popular daily newspaper.
paper
a newspaper. Paper is more common than newspaper in everyday English:
• There was an interesting article in the local paper today. • the Sunday papers
the press
newspapers and news magazines in general, and the people who write for them:
• the freedom of the press • The press are always interested in stories about the royal family.
the media
newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the Internet, considered as a group that provides news and information:
• This issue has received a lot of attention in the media. • Her public image was shaped by the media.
tabloid
a newspaper that has small pages, a lot of photographs, short stories, and not much serious news:
• The tabloids are full of stories about her and her boyfriend.
broadsheet
British English a serious newspaper printed on large sheets of paper, with news about politics, finance, and foreign affairs:
• the quality broadsheets
the nationals
the newspapers that give news about the whole country where they are printed, in contrast to local newspapers:
• The results of the nationwide survey became headlines in the nationals.
the dailies
the daily newspapers:
• The dailies reported the story.
parts of a newspaper
article
a piece of writing in a newspaper about a particular subject:
• an article on the education reforms
report
a piece of writing in a newspaper about an event:
• newspaper reports on the war
story
a report in a newspaper about an event, especially one that is not very serious or reliable:
• You can’t always believe what you read in newspaper stories.
a headline
the title of an important newspaper article, printed in large letters above the article. The headlines are the titles of the most important stories on the front page:
• The singer’s drug problem has been constantly in the headlines.
front page
the page on the front of a newspaper which has the most important news stories:
• The story was all over the front page.
section/pages
the pages in a newspaper dealing with a particular area of news such as sports, business, or entertainment:
• the financial pages of The Times • the arts section
editorial
the page of a newspaper on which the editor of a newspaper and other people express their opinions about the news, rather than just giving facts:
• an editorial on the vaccination programme
column
an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly:
• his weekly column on gardening
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