A tabloid is a newspaper with compact page size smaller than broadsheet, although there is no standard for the precise dimensions of the tabloid newspaper format.

The term " tabloid journalism ", which tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, celebrity gossip and TV is commonly associated with tabloid sized newspapers, though some respected newspapers such as The Independent are in tabloid format, and in the United Kingdom the size is used by nearly all local newspapers.

The tabloid newspaper format is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where its page dimensions are roughly.

The Berliner format used by many prominent European newspapers is sized between the tabloid and the broadsheet.

Red top tabloids are so named due to their tendency, in British and Commonwealth usage, to have their mastheads printed in red ink ; the term compact was coined to avoid the connotation of the word tabloid, which implies a red top tabloid, and has lent its name to tabloid journalism, which is journalism after the fashion of red top reporters.

The red top tabloid is, for many, the prototypical example of the format ; the ubiquity of this editorial style among newspapers of the tabloid format has made it persist in the minds of the public.

On the other hand, The Morning Star had always used the tabloid size, but stands in contrast to both the red top papers and the former broadsheets ; although The Morning Star emphasises hard news, it embraces socialism and is circulated mostly among blue-collar labourers.

The tabloid format is used by a number of respected and indeed prize-winning American papers.

There is also The Province, which is a tabloid in British Columbia, and has no connections to Sun Media.

The Canadian publisher Black Press publishes newspapers in both tabloid ( wide by deep ) and what it calls " tall tab " format, where the latter is wide by deep, larger than tabloid but smaller than the broadsheets it also publishes.

When a tabloid is defined as " roughly " and commonly " half the size of a broadsheet ," confusion can arise because " Many broadsheets measure roughly ", half of which is roughly not.

The term has been defined by tabloid headlines.

Exploitative and mendacious, in its short life ( it closed operations in 1932 ) the Graphic defined " tabloid journalism and launched the careers of Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell, who developed the modern gossip column there.

In some countries, especially Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, broadsheet newspapers are commonly perceived to be more intellectual in content than their tabloid counterparts, using their greater size to examine stories in more depth, while carrying less sensationalist and celebrity material.

The National Enquirer ( also commonly known as the Enquirer ) is an American supermarket tabloid now published by American Media Inc ( AMI ).

Selim Jehan Shah ( born 20 January 1944 ), commonly known as Eddy Shah or Eddie Shah, is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper Today in 1986, and of the extremely short-lived tabloid The Post, and current owner of the Messenger Group.

A commonly cited example of tabloid television run amok is a series of reports in 2001 collectively dubbed the Summer of the Shark, focusing on a supposed epidemic of shark attacks after one highly-publicized attack on an 8-year-old boy.

The Southern Daily Echo, commonly known as the Daily Echo or simply The Echo, is a local tabloid newspaper that covers the area of south-central Hampshire, England, including the city of Southampton.

" Despite numerous tabloid rumors, he denied his homosexual / bi-sexual orientation for the first half of his career, until his stance relaxed considerably after emigrating to Vancouver.

Unlike most other comics at the time, which were half tabloid size, the Topper was for many years full tabloid.

It also appeared in half page, tabloid and half tab formats, which were smaller and / or dropped panels.

* The Trumbulletin is Trumbull's tabloid magazine and the oldest residential college publication at Yale, although it has been waning as of late, with nary an issue in more than two and a half years.

A more critical interpretation of the epithet is that it stems from a general tabloid and folk conflation and reaction to several aspects of academic interest in the latter half of the twentieth century.

He called it " a smeary tabloid fable " and " an hour and a half of ostentatious vice.

It is in a tabloid format, and varies in length, averaging about 72 pages long, with approximately half of its pages being printed in full colour.

The best format is the half page ; the strip is also found in a third of a page and tabloid formats, which drop one or more panels.

Other formats for Sunday strips include the half-page, the third of a page, the quarter page, the tabloid page or tab, and the half tab, short for half of a tabloid page.

Children grow to maturity in a few minutes ; meals are eaten in split seconds ; tabloid newspapers are issued at intervals of a second or two, and the loss of half a minute is a serious matter.

The Sunday strip ran in New York's Daily News from February 17, 1952 to May 13, 1955, initially as a full tabloid page and, near the end, as a half tab.

Thus the terms tabloid and broadsheet are, in non-technical usage, today more descriptive of a newspaper's market position than its physical size.

In the UK, three previously broadsheet daily newspapers — The Independent, The Times, and The Scotsman — have switched to tabloid size in recent years, and two — Daily Express and Daily Mail — in former years, although all of the above call the format " compact " to avoid the down-market connotation of the word tabloid.

Approximate front size of a tabloid ( evening ) newspaper.

Printers capable of tabloid and larger size may include memory expansion slots.

As noted, much of the material for the dime novels came from the story papers, which were weekly, eight page newspaper-like publications, varying in size from tabloid to a full fledged newspaper format, and usually costing five or six cents.

Many broadsheets measure approximately per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid.

In other countries, such as Spain, a small format is the universal for newspapers — a popular, sensational press has had difficulty taking root — and the tabloid size has no such connotations.

* The Age, Melbourne ( announced on June 18, 2012, that it intends to move to a tabloid size )

* The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney ( announced on June 18, 2012, that it intends to move to a tabloid size )

Before the Second World War, comics were almost exclusively published as tabloid size newspapers.

Sarah Lucas enlarged to a giant size a lurid tabloid press cutting ; she also exhibited a mattress with two melons, a bucket and a cucumber, representing female and male genitalia.

It is tabloid size and covers local news, business, arts, sports, and homes.

It is tabloid size and published twice weekly.

From the issue of 21 March 1998 onwards, the paper has no longer been printed on newsprint, and more recently it has shifted to tabloid size: it has full, glossy, colour covers.

" He has also serialized two short stories in a comic strip format in the tabloid size promotional publication Dark Horse Extra.