Newspapers in Lovia

Lovia has a strong print publishing sector which has given rise to many newspapers since it's founding. Typically classified as either national or regional papers based on the market they sell to. Newspapers in Lovia easily out compete foreign papers and have a greater readership proportionally to draw from than other developed countries with the average daily readership of all papers being 93,100 readers. The Lovian newspapers also haven't felt the same fall in sales that other developed countries papers have.

Frequency
Most papers operate on either daily, weekly or freestyle schedule of printing within Lovia. Commonly the more national a newspapers audience the more likely it will print daily and the more local orientated the audience the more likely it will print weekly, however certain papers operate on a freestyle schedule where they print out new papers when news becomes available, these papers while rare around the world are more common in Lovia.

Daily papers, such as The National Post, are issued every day (sometimes with the exception of Sunday or certain holidays) and tend to be sold by retailers both small and large due to the constant flow of new print to sell. Weekly papers, such as the Newport News, are issued every week and are commonly more specialised or regionalised in their content, they are sold more commonly by smaller retailers than daily papers and are usually more concise than daily papers. Papers with freestyle schedules are issued at the editors discretion and can be more specialised than weekly papers, retailers tend to be unwilling to stock them however sometimes freestyle papers bypass this via having a home delivered subscription system.

Formats
The current formats newspapers come in varies greatly. The Lovian Times and the Lovian Financial Times operate under broadsheet formats while others have adopted Berliner, Compact or Tabloid formats. While some newspapers have their own unique formats these are still categorised as either Broadsheet, Berliner, Compact or Tabloid.

Broadsheet formats normally represent serious newspapers which comprise mainly of political news. Berliner and Compact formats typically are considered to be used by middle ground newspapers and are considered to be less serious than Broadsheets but not sensationalising like Tabloids. Tabloid formats, while not having the same kind of reputation for sensationalising of news or celebrity focus that they have garnered in other countries, are still considered to be less serious and more sensationalising than other types of newspaper formats.