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- Instance of
- journalism genre
- Subclass of
- newspaper
- Named after
- tabloid
- Image
- Popo26.06.1992-nr1.JPG
- Said to be same as
- yellow journalism
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- topic's main category
- Category:Tabloid journalism
- different from
- tabloid
- has characteristic
- sensationalism
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Encyclopedic overview
Display rack of British newspapers during the midst of the News International phone hacking scandal (5 July 2011). Many of the newspapers in the rack are tabloids.
Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism, which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as a half broadsheet. The size became associated with sensationalism, and tabloid journalism replaced the earlier label of yellow journalism and scandal sheets. Not all newspapers associated with tabloid journalism are tabloid size, and not all tabloid-size newspapers engage in tabloid journalism; since around the year 2000, many broadsheet newspapers converted to the more compact tabloid format.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tabloid journalism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.