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It's common knowledge that newspapers report the news. Published on a regular basis, usually daily or weekly, . In addition, newspapers give useful information, such as stock market prices, weather reports and television programmes.

They are also a popular source of reading for entertainment. People often buy newspapers for their , such as travel and fashion, for their comics and crosswords, and for their regular columns on topics, such as gardening, eating out, show business, gossip and astrology. Together with other means of communication, such as radio, television and magazines, newspapers form the media. Printed forms of the media, including newspapers and magazines .

Newspapers treat the news in two different ways. They can take a serious line, reporting and explaining the news with the aim of informing the readers as fully as possible. Alternatively they may take a more popular approach, which requires more entertainment in the choice and presentation of stories, photographs . Many newspapers combine the serious and the popular approach, but in the United Kingdom newspapers tend to be either one thing or the other.

Both serious and popular newspapers can be further divided into (depending on how often they are published), morning or evening (depending on when they are published) and local, national, or, in a very few cases, international (depending on the area over which they are sold).

Newspapers of general interest are supplemented by specialist newspapers, which publish news and stories for people with particular interests. .