Page "Yellow journalism" Paragraph 10

The term was coined by Erwin Wardman, the editor of the New York Press.

Wardman was the first to publish the term but there is evidence that expressions such as " yellow journalism " and " school of yellow kid journalism " were already used by newsmen of that time.

Wardman never defined the term exactly.

Possibly it was a mutation from earlier slander where Wardman twisted " new journalism " into " nude journalism ".

Wardman had also used the expression " yellow kid journalism " referring to the then-popular comic strip which was published by both Pulitzer and Hearst during a circulation war.

In 1898 the paper simply elaborated: " We called them Yellow because they are Yellow.