Tabloids were originally pint-sized newspapers specializing in the sensational. Once confined to so-called "scandal sheets," or magazine-style newspapers that many people saw only in grocery store checkout lines, during the last years of...

A tabloid is a newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed for free (often in a smaller,...

Their circulations in free fall, the supermarket tabs have embraced a new survival strategy: respectability. DAVID PECKER EMERGES FROM HIS EXPANSIVE, wood-laden office in a haze of smoke. A single cigar, fat and nubby, rests in a large ashtray, a remnant of...

A THIRD FACE My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking By Samuel Fuller Knopf. 592 pp. $35 The decisive moment in Samuel Fuller's life -- as in the lives of many others -- came on Dec. 7, 1941, when...

A woman and her son have sued The National Enquirer, claiming the supermarket tabloid fabricated stories that said she gave birth to a son fathered by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.The defamation lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston on Tuesday claims two articles that appeared...

David Hasselhoff has demanded an apology from a British tabloid for publishing a story that claimed he was drunk at a Hollywood nightclub while celebrating his victory in a child custody battle.Hasselhoff, star of TV's "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider," was awarded custody of his daughters...