tabloid

n. small format newspaper providing news in a condensed form and containing sensational material or gossip

This article is about the newspaper size. For the tabloids that report on sensationalistic stories, see supermarket tabloids A tabloid is a newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed for free (often in a smaller, tabloid-sized newspaper format); or to a newspaper that tends to emphasise sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuendos about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and other so-called "junk food news" (often in a smaller, tabloid-sized newspaper format). As the term "Tabloid" has become synonymous with down-market newspapers in some areas, some papers refer to themselves as "Compact" newspapers instead.
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Noun
1. sensationalist journalism
(synonym) yellow journalism, tab
(hypernym) journalism, news media, fourth estate
2. newspaper with half-size pages
(synonym) rag, sheet
(hypernym) newspaper, paper

n. tabloid, small format newspaper providing news in a condensed form

a newspaper smaller than a broadsheet e.g. Sun, Mirror; a term for the down-market press.