tabloid Definition

tabloid
noun

1. A newspaper with relatively small pages (approximately 12 ′ 16in, 30 ′ 40cm), especially one written in an informal and often sensationalist style and with many photographs. Often as adj. Compare broadsheet.

Example: the tabloid press
Example: tabloid television

Etymology: Early 20c in this sense; late 19c as a trademark for medicines produced in tablet form, from which sense the word came to be applied to anything produced in concentrated form, and in particular to newspapers that provide news coverage in a condensed informal style: from tablet + -oid.