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News International will continue its 10p price promotion of The Sun in Scotland, which has already helped the red-top add an extra 28,000 copies to its daily circulation. Mike Anderson, [...]

A tabloid newspaper devoted to promoting Quebec's separation from Canada will launch a beer to help the publication stay afloat financially. The 6.2% alcohol beer is called La Militante, meaning [...]

Though circulation is down, tabloids remain solid PR pitch targets thanks to a still-sizable legion of readers and a contingent of knowledgeable, cooperative editors. Like them or not, you have [...]

NEW YORK -- Will Millennials ever read the newspaper? And, if they do, will retailers then try to reach them through the gray pages? A pair of ambitious experiments designed [...]

Move over, Maxim -- the new Chicago Sun-Times young-adult tabloid Red Streak is featuring more skin than any of the slick laddie magazines. On Nov. 18, its back cover featured [...]

As the advertising economy continues to falter, the hard-fought brawl between New York's 'Post' and 'Daily News' for Gotham's readers intensifies in both the boardroom and the newsroom 'Bloodbath in [...]

Since the arrival of its new editor, there have been hints of a change in direction at the News of the World. Now a total revamp is planned. But how [...]

Two major newspaper publishers have locked horns in Manchester in a battle for the lucrative daily free sheet market by launching competitive titles on the same day. The tussle is [...]

NEW YORK -- With 85% of National Enquirer copies sold in supermarkets, Evercore American Media, the tabloid's new owner, plans to promote the weekly later this year with point-of-sale displays [...]

Some of the country's largest supermarket chains pulled last week's editions of popular tabloids off their racks because they carried stories and photos concerning the late Princess Diana that officials [...]

The New York Daily News and New York Newsday are engaged in a bitter battle for readership. The Daily News is taking the more aggressive stance. It has spent $1 million on TV, radio and print ads that accuse Newsday of being an interloper in the New York market, intent on capitalizing on the Daily News's near demise. Newsday ads are no less combative, but the paper is concentrating more on highlighting its strengths, particularly its Pulitzer Prize-winning features., TIME MAGAZINE HAS declared New York City the 'rotten apple,' but that hasn't stopped two daily tabloids from fighting for the right to claim its core. The New York Daily [...]

Despite recent initiatives, the Daily Mail continues to frustrate attempts by the Daily Express to lure back readers. Hashi Syedain asks the Express's editor how it can regain lost ground [...]

Traditionally, intelligent, quality journalism comes in a broadsheet format and sensationalist, popular journalism in a tabloid one. However, since today's tabloids were once broadsheets, is it really true that function […]

A report on a new tabloid newspaper Fakt, threatening Poland's struggling dailies saddled by a stagnant economy and falling ad revenues as faced by Fakt's aggressive marketing strategy is presented. Efforts by other newspaper dailies like Agora and Gazeta to fight back are outlined showing that despite the problems, Fakt will not be able to dismiss its Polish competitors easily but will affect them badly.

Rumour has It that most UK broadsheets have a tabloid version of their title ready designed but locked away deep in the art room. Many readers prefer the smaller format--especially [...]

It's 7.19am when the gatekeeper calls me to the phone. 'Elly, in six minutes, you will be treated to the most unbelievable sycophancy. You'll be begging me to stop,' Ellis [...]

THREE WEEKS INTO A HEATED SUNDAY circulation price war, New York's Daily News and Post are seeing readership gains of 75,000 to 80,000 copies each per Sunday. Executives of both [...]

Now that the opening shots has been fired in the battle between L.A.'s alternative newsweeklies, two out-of-town publishing giants are settling down for a long fight for the hearts and [...]

Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper group started a new Chinese-language tabloid paper, Hong Kong Today, in Nov 1993. Ming Pao Chmn Yu Pun-hoi hopes that the $15.3 million tabloid will be politically acceptable to the Chinese authorities after reunification in 1997 as well as appealing to Hong Kong's people. However, the paper may have trouble establishing a niche since Hong Kong already has over 60 Chinese newspapers. The paper will try to overcome this obstacle with a toned-down imitation of British tabloids and their sensationalistic coverage of crime, sex and show business.

Today has called on BST to give it an image, but advertisers want a circulation that hits one million Today has an image problem -- it doesn't have an image. [...]

At the start of 1989 the Sun, Daily Mirror/Record and the Star sold nine million copies a day between them. The latest half-year average shows that total has now dipped [...]

Boston Herald photographer Mike Adaskaveg tricked Boston Globe Exec editor Matt Storin into posing with a placard promoting the Hearld's Wingo game. Storin reacted angrily and, according the the Herald, injured Adaskaveg's neck. Storin claims that he simply grabbed the photographer by the collar and asked him who he was. The Herald is a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid., Editor not amused after he's tricked into being photographed holding sign promoting competitor's contest THE BOSTON HERALD says it was intended as a joke. But Boston Globe executive editor Matt [...]

Regional newspaper group Westminster Press may launch its first Sunday paper in Yorkshire as early as August. England's biggest county has no regional Sunday, but competition is hotting up. Sunday [...]