Editing Broadsheet (section)

==History==
The broadsheet, [[broadside (printing)|broadside]], was used as a format for [[Broadside ballad|musical]] and [[popular print]]s in the 17th century. 
Eventually, people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches.

Broadsheet newspapers developed in Britain after a 1712 tax was imposed on newspapers based on their page counts. However, larger formats had long been signs of status in printed objects and still are in many places. Outside of Britain the broadsheet developed for other reasons unrelated to the British tax structure including style and authority. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increased production of printed materials including the broadside, as well as the competing [[penny dreadful]]. Newspapers all over [[Europe]] were then starting to print their issues on broadsheets. However, in the United Kingdom, the main competition for the broadside was the gradual reduction of the newspaper tax, beginning in the 1830s until its eventual dismissal in 1855.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/background.html|title=The Word on the Street – Background|publisher=[[National Library of Scotland]]|access-date=10 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205045739/http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/background.html|archive-date=5 February 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

With the increased production of newspapers and literacy, the demand for visual reporting and journalists led to the blending of broadsides and newspapers, creating the modern broadsheet [[newspaper]].