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 debatesMartin Conboy Digital impacts on the tabloid sphere: Blurring and diffusion of a popular form and its powerScott A. Eldridge II ‘Tabloidization’ in the Internet ageJulia Lefkowitz Is Facebook driving tabloidization?: A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapersMelanie 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 celebritiesSreedevi Purayannur Tabloid and populist sensitivities in DenmarkHenrik Bødker Recent shifts in the Australian tabloid landscape: Fissures and new formationsStephen 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 politicAndrea 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 revolutionChengju Huang Reclaiming and tabloidizing "truth" in Turkey Mine Gencel Bek

"This book brings together a rich array of perspectives on tabloid culture. With examples gathered from around the world, and perspectives ranging from the ethical to the political and technological, located within a variety of social settings and economic systems, this collection is set to become a standard reference point for students of this much-maligned yet perennially influential cultural form" - Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town, Author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa – True Story!