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Also known as Red tops

style of largely sensationalist journalism

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Within Vinony's link graph, tabloid journalism is referenced by 1,511 other articles, and connects out to cancel culture, independent media and media pluralism.

It is catalogued under topics including Media bias, News media manipulation and Tabloid journalism.

Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.

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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.

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