The connotation of "tabloid" was soon applied to other small items and to the "compressed" journalism that condensed stories into a simplified, easily-absorbed format (Eva, 2010).

A tabloid is often a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local interest stories and entertainment, sometimes distributed free of charge, or a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuendos about the personal lives of celebrities and sport stars, and other so-called "junk food news." The tabloid newspaper format is mainly popular in United Kingdom and its page magnitude is approximately 17 by 11 inches (430 mm x 280 mm). Its best example being British tabloid is "Daily Mail" (Eva, 2010).

This mode of journalism and newspaper publishing has been exported to different other countries including the United States. The daily tabloids in the U.S. -which date back to the founding of the "New York Daily...
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