High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches / 560 millimetres or more). The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. published in 1618.