yellow journalism

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   sensationalist journalism

   Synonymstabloidtab

   Broaderjournalism

Questions about yellow journalism

What does yellow journalism mean?

yellow journalism means "sensationalist journalism".

What is another word for yellow journalism?

Close synonyms include tabloid, tab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yellow journalism a common word?

yellow journalism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.