yellow journalism
yellow journalism noun: journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
Noun
yellow journalism (uncountable)
- Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
- Near-synonym: tabloidism
- It is the sort of paper which the father of the family is expected to take home with him from his office and read aloud to the chicks before bed-time. It was founded by its proprietor, Mr. Benjamin White, as an antidote to yellow journalism.1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Psmith, Journalist
- Synonyms:
- tabloidism
yellow journalism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian
yellow journalism in Hindi
- sensationalistic journalism
- पीली पत्रकारिता pīlī patrakāritā
yellow journalism in Tamil
- மஞ்சள் பத்திரிகை, மஞ்சள் இதழியல், பெரும்பாலும், தவறான செய்திகள்
yellow journalism in Arabic
- sensationalistic journalism
- صَحَافَة الصَّفْرَاء, صَحَافَة الفَاضِحَة
yellow journalism in Indonesian
- sensationalistic journalism
- koran kuning
Synonyms of yellow journalism
Origin of yellow journalism
From the comic The Yellow Kid, published in tabloid newspapers.
Words formed from yellow journalism
Questions about yellow journalism
- What does yellow journalism mean?
- Yellow journalism means journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
- What is yellow journalism in Hindi?
- Yellow journalism in Hindi is पीली पत्रकारिता (pīlī patrakāritā). See Yellow journalism meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is yellow journalism?
- Yellow journalism is a noun.
Words near yellow journalism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yellow journalism (page history and authors); yellow journalism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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