#368 | Britain's Tabloid Culture: A Love-Hate Relationship
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The History of Tabloid Journalism
In the late 19th century, a tabloid was a mixture of tablet and alkaloid in a condensed tablet. Admissions seem to think that the name could have been used to describe journalism too. Alfred Harsworth, the first Vicount Northcliff, founded the Daily Mail in 1896. A few years later, in 1903, he created another famous British tabloid, one that is still in circulation today: the Daily Mirror.
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