Vocabulary

• Tabloids: large format newspaper
• Broadsheet: small format newspaper
• Journalists: people who write for newspapers or periodicals
• Coverage: the amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on TV
• Current affair: the political situation as it now
• Broadcast: Radio or TV program
• Log on: to enter a password and start to access a computer system
• Reporters: journalists who write reports of events for a newspapers, periodical or TV program
• Website: the millions of pages and sites which display text and images within the internet
• Download: to transfer pages from a web site into the computer
• The Internet: the international network linking millions of computers
• Information overload: a modern experience referring to the inability of a human to process everything he or she hears and sees
• Web: a collection of related pages on the World Wide Web created by a company, organisation, or individual