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Belchen Tunnel

On January 6, 1981, the tabloid Blick wrote about the sightings, followed by other media also adopting the story.

Birmingham Mail

The newspaper's currently owned by the Trinity Mirror Group who also owns the Daily Mirror and the Birmingham Post, the weekly business tabloid sold in the Birmingham area.

Carl-Eduard von Bismarck

In 2007, he was called "Germany's laziest member of Parliament" by the Tabloid Bild, because he attended only 14 of 27 parliamentary sessions since the 2005 elections and voted only twice.

Classic Images

Classic Images is a monthly American mail-subscription newspaper in tabloid format, founded in 1962 by film collector Sam Rubin, dedicated to film and television of the "Golden Age."

Clinical vampirism

Serial killers Peter Kürten and Richard Trenton Chase were both called "vampires" in the tabloids after they were discovered drinking the blood of the people they murdered.

Daily Echo

The Daily Echo is the name of two daily tabloid newspapers in southern England owned by Newsquest.

Davinia Taylor

Since giving up acting around the same time as her marriage in 2003, Taylor has become frequently been featured in the British tabloid press, as part of the Primrose Hill set with Sadie Frost (actress and ex-wife of Jude Law), and supermodel Kate Moss.

Easy Finder

On August 22, 2006, Hong Kong tabloid magazine Easy Finder published a series of photos of Gillian Chung inside a changing room after a Twins concert at the Arena of Stars in Genting, Malaysia.

Era stupendo

On 20 January 2008, Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported that the song had been accused of being plagiarised from Amy Diamond's "It Can Only Get Better".

Fakt

Untypically for a tabloid and in contrast to its usual content, Fakt has a weekly supplement entitled Europa which contains high-brow (non-original) essays by scholars and public intellectuals, which in 2006 have included Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, Jürgen Habermas, and Robert Kagan.

Flemming Nielsen

After ending his active career, Nielsen was a sports journalist for Aftenbladet, Politiken, and B.T., and wrote two books about football.

Geraldine Kennedy

Kennedy was paid more than the editor of the UK's top non-tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has a circulation of about 9 times that of The Irish Times.

Greek cruiser Georgios Averof

The publication of photos from the party by the Proto Thema tabloid caused major political uproar, resulting in the dismissal of her commander, Commodore Evangelos Gavalas.

Harry Benjamin

who received much publicity in France in 1958, and April Ashley whose exposure in 1961 by the British tabloid press was reported worldwide) fuelled this.

Henrietta Hunter

News of this leaked out to the media and there followed a series of objections, most notably from the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail.

Hitta.se

In February 2005, Hitta.se's parent company TA Teleadress Information Holding AB was bought by Aftonbladet Hierta, who own the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet, for 200 million Swedish krona.

Jane Symons

Unusually for a tabloid health writer, Symons was praised in the British Medical Journal, where Professor David Colquhoun of the Department of Pharmacology, at University College London wrote that "It isn’t often that a Murdoch tabloid produces a better account of a medical problem than anything the Department of Health’s chief scientific advisor can muster.".

Jazz journalism

In 1920, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer extended yellow journalism into tabloid journalism with an emphasis on sex, violence, murder, and celebrity affairs.

Jeff Nuttall

In 1967 two of his illustrations appeared in the counter-cultural tabloid newspaper The Last Times (Volume 1, number 1, Fall 1967) published by Charles Plymell.

Justin Lee

Justin Ross Lee (born 1983), American socialite and tabloid personality

Knutby murder

Details such as the victims' and perpetrators' involvement in the same sect-like church community (led by a woman named Åsa Waldau, sister of the murdered woman), as well as the pastor's sexual relationship with both the nanny and the wounded man's wife, were extensively covered in the tabloid newspapers.

Lisa Millar

Millar grew up in the small country town of Kilkivan, before beginning her journalism career in newspapers, wit ha cadet-ship for the The Gympie Times and then Brisbane's afternoon tabloid newspaper, The Sun, until it closed down.

Lost Voyage

After the producer of a tabloid television series (Janet Gunn) sends in a paranormal researcher (Judd Nelson) whose father and stepmother were aboard the ship, homicidal spirits attack the TV crew, including the cameraman (Richard Gunn); a cruise-line representative (Lance Henriksen); and two salvagers (Jeff Kober, Mark Sheppard).

Martina Aitolehti

In 2004, Aitolehti became a household name and a tabloid celebrity because of her alleged secret affair with the famed Finnish soccer player Alexei Eremenko, who was in a relationship with another woman at the time.

Nicknamed as a "Secret Lover" by the Finnish tabloid media, Aitolehti posed for the Finnish edition of Hustler magazine and recorded an album with another "secret lover" Marika Fingerroos.

Microsoft Developer Network

The Microsoft Developer Network was launched in June 1992 as a quarterly, CD-ROM-based compilation of technical articles, sample code, and software development kits, as well as a 16-page tabloid newspaper, the Microsoft Developer Network News, edited by Andrew Himes, who had previously been the founding editor of MacTech, the premiere Macintosh technology journal.

Middle-market newspaper

In the United Kingdom, since the demise of Today (1986–95), the only national middle-market papers are the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, distinguishable by their black-top masthead (both use the easy-to-carry tabloid paper size), as opposed to the red-top mastheads of down-market tabloids.

Mike Leon Grosch

In early March 2007 Grosch admitted to Bild, the biggest German daily tabloid, that SonyBMG would not continue their existing record contract with him and thus was being dropped.

Montreal Daily News

Quebecor founder Pierre Péladeau and British tabloid publisher Robert Maxwell teamed up to launch a competing English-language newspaper against The Gazette.

Nagmamahal, Manay Gina

The TV show/radio drama/tabloid column is hosted, anchored and written by Gina de Venecia also known as Manay Gina.

NewsEdge at 11

It is described as a fast-paced, Fox News Channel-type news show, with shorter report segments, and a more tabloid-feel.

Nowy Dzień

Nowy Dzień was launched by the publishing company Agora SA, after its flagship publication Gazeta Wyborcza had come under increasing pressure from Fakt, a low-cost tabloid introduced by Axel Springer Polska in 2003.

Panasonic Gobel Awards

The first award is held in 1997 in partnership with Tabloid Citra, and aired on Indosiar.

Perthshire Advertiser

The Perthshire Advertiser is a tabloid newspaper published by Trinity Mirror Scotland (also known as Scottish and Universal Newspapers, or Media Scotland, from December 2011) in Perth, Scotland.

Post-mortem photography

Somewhat similarly, the Mexican tabloid photographer Enrique Metinides—known for his stark and often grisly depictions of life in Mexico City—documents crime scene victims using an unexpected compositionally rich aesthetic that has seen his work exhibited to positive critical response in galleries worldwide.

Rattled Roosters

Playing regularly at Johnny Depp's Viper Room, the band made National entertainment news when TV tabloid host Jerry Springer sang with them on stage.

Road to Rouen

Road to Rouen was a difficult album for the band due to personal reasons, including Danny Goffey's tabloid ordeal and the death of Gaz and Rob Coombes' mother.

Sopwith Tabloid

The prototype was powered by an 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome Lambda rotary engine and in a trial flown by Harry Hawker at Farnborough the Tabloid reached 92 mph (148 km/h) and took only one minute to reach 1200 ft (366 m) while carrying a passenger and enough fuel for 2½ hours.

Swimming in Sweden

The first time it was held was in Gävle in xxxx after an initiative by NN from the Swedish tabloid Expressen.

Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson

At a thanksgiving service at the "journalists' church" St Bride's off of Fleet Street in London Hugh Cudlipp used his address to launch an attack on the state of British tabloid newspapers.

Tabloid television

A commonly cited example of tabloid television run amok is a series of reports in 2001 collectively dubbed the Summer of the Shark, focusing on a supposed epidemic of shark attacks after one highly publicized attack on an 8-year-old boy.

Tech tabloid

The tabloid tag does not apply to the paper format, as many of these publications are web-based only, such as The Inquirer and The Register.

Teresa May

In addition to films, May has appeared in numerous tabloids and men's magazines including Hustler, Men Only, and Razzle.

The Hockey Stick Illusion

Alastair McIntosh, writing in the Scottish Review of Books, criticised the book as only being able to "cut the mustard with tabloid intellectuals but not with most scientists."

TV Patrol North Central Luzon

The program, a tabloid-style newscast, delivers the freshest news and current affairs issues in Pangasinan and northern parts of Central Luzon (Region III) in Tagalog language.

Where's Dick?

The opera is satire on 1980s American life and tabloid journalism and follows the experiences of Junior ("an all-American boy") who in reaction to the crime and corruption he sees around him searches for the detective hero Dick Tracy.


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