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title: "The battle of the tabloids"
date: 2016-07-29
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:16:30+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/newpaper-battle-pulitzer-hearst-yellow-press-yellow-kid-comic-context-en/"
description: "It is now a little-known fact that the term “yellow press” comes from a comic, which led to a veritable newspaper battle between the two big American newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Header_Zeitungskrieg_Hearst_Pulitzer_Yellow_Press.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The battle of the tabloids