Tabloid

A tabloid is a newspaper format particularly popular in the United Kingdom. A tabloid format newspaper is roughly 23½ by 14 3/4 inches (597 mm × 375 mm) per spread. This is the smaller of two standard newspaper sizes; the larger newspapers, associated with higher-quality journalism, are called broadsheets. A third major format for newspapers is the Berliner, which is sized between the tabloid and the broadsheet. The phrase tabloid press is used to refer to newspapers focusing on less "serious" content, especially celebrities, the British Royal Family, sports, and sensationalist crime stories, though in recent years several "mainstream" newspapers have begun printing in the tabloid format (see below). The term red top (as in News International red tops sweep the board) is also used in Britain for these less serious newspapers, on account of the red mastheads used by most of them.

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Newspaper - United Kingdom - Inch - Mm - Broadsheet - Berliner - Celebrities - British Royal Family - Sensationalist - Masthead

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Recently, three traditionally broadsheet daily newspapers—The Independent, The Times, and The Scotsman—have switched to tabloid size; due to the negative connotations of the label, these are generally referred to instead as 'compact' format.

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The Independent - The Times - The Scotsman

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