tabloid
noun
[ ˈtablɔɪd ]
• a newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories.
• "the tabloid press"
Origin:
late 19th century: from tablet + -oid. Originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets, the term came to denote any small medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’.
