The term preceded the 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained the condensed stories. A 1902 item in London's Westminster Gazette noted, 'The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals.' Thus tabloid journalism in 1901, originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items. to the compressed tablets they marketed as 'Tabloid' pills in the late 1880s. The word tabloid comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. There is no standard size for this newspaper format.Įtymology Tabloid products of the late 1880s British tabloids in 2011Ī tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. Approximate nominal dimensions are in millimetres. Comparison of some newspaper sizes with metric paper sizes.
