Global Tabloid

Martin Conboy is Emeritus Professor of Journalism History and the co-director of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History at the University of Sheffield. He has produced ten books on the language and history of journalism. Specific to this project he wrote Tabloid Britain (2006) and with Professor Adrian Bingham Tabloid Century (2015). His 2002 book The Press and Popular Culture has recently been translated into Czech with a new introduction. He is on the editorial boards of Journalism Studies; Media History; Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; and Memory Studies. Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. His research addresses digital journalism and the changing journalistic field, focusing on antagonistic journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on these changes, including Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field (2018), and is co-editor with Bob Franklin of The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017). He is an associate editor for the journal Digital Journalism.

Tabloid culture: Parameters and debates
Martin Conboy




Digital impacts on the tabloid sphere: Blurring and diffusion of a popular form and its power
Scott A. Eldridge II




‘Tabloidization’ in the Internet age
Julia Lefkowitz




Is Facebook driving tabloidization?: A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers
Melanie Magin, Miriam Steiner, Andrea Häuptli, Birgit Stark and Linards Udris




Tabloids in Zimbabwe: A moral-ethical research agenda
Khulekani Ndlovu



Trivializing entertainment news in India: Elements of tabloidization in the news coverage of Bollywood celebrities
Sreedevi Purayannur



Tabloid and populist sensitivities in Denmark
Henrik Bødker




Recent shifts in the Australian tabloid landscape: Fissures and new formations
Stephen Harrington




The post-communist "hybrid" tabloid: Between the serious and the "yellow"
Lada Trifonova Price




From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic
Andrea McDonnell




Dispatches from la Crónica Roja: Why sensationalism and crime still matter in the new Latin America media ecology
Marcela F. Pizarro and Jairo Lugo-Ocando




The rise and fall of tabloid journalism in post-Mao China: Ideology, the market, and the new media revolution
Chengju Huang




Reclaiming and tabloidizing "truth" in Turkey

Mine Gencel Bek