Identical dimensions, different economics
This shares its trim size, its margin and its page count rules with the traditional tabloid exactly. If you have already laid out artwork for one, it will drop straight into the other with no changes at all. The choice between them is not a design decision, it is a printing decision, and you can make it after the artwork is finished.
Digital printing has no plate setup, so the cost does not have a large fixed component to spread across the run. That makes short runs viable in a way a web press never will. If you want twenty-five copies of something for a family event or a small launch, this is the version that makes it affordable.
What actually looks different
The stock. Digital printing uses a brighter, smoother paper than genuine newsprint, so photographs hold detail better and colours come out cleaner and more saturated. Whether that is an improvement depends entirely on what you are making. For a photography portfolio or a product launch it plainly is. For a paper that is meant to feel like a real newspaper, that brightness works against you, because the softness of newsprint is the whole aesthetic.
The practical consequence for image preparation is that this format rewards better source files. On genuine newsprint, ink spread hides a multitude of sins and an image at the lower end of the accepted range is fine. On a smooth digital stock the same file looks visibly soft, because the paper is capable of showing detail the file does not have.
Choosing between the two
Short run, photographs matter, want it to look clean: digital. Long run, want it to feel like newsprint, cost per copy matters: traditional. There is no wrong answer and no difference in how you prepare the file.