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- Instance of
- newspaper format
- Subclass of
- newspaper format
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- British tabloids - July 5 2011 (cropped).jpg
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- 432
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- 279
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- tabloid journalism
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- Tabloid (newspaper format)
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Encyclopedic overview
Comparison of some newspaper sizes with metric paper sizes. Approximate nominal dimensions are in millimetres.
British tabloids in 2011 A tabloid is a newspaper format characterized by its compact size, smaller than a broadsheet. The term originates from the 19th century, when the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. used the term to describe compressed pills, later adopted by newspapers to denote condensed content. There are two main types of tabloid newspaper: red tops and compact, distinguished by editorial style.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tabloid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.