tabloid

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tabloid/ˈtablɔɪd/

▶noun a newspaper having pages half the size of those of a broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories.

■ [as modifier] chiefly N. Amer. lurid and sensational: a tabloid TV show.

– derivatives
tabloidization (or tabloidisation) noun.

– origin C19: from tablet + -oid; orig. a proprietary term for a medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’.