ABSTRACT
Yellow journalism is the term attached to the sensationalistic, graphically amboyant journalism emerging in New York at the end of the nineteenth century. It was coined by the New York Press, which used it derisively in 1897 to label the news coming from two of its fellow New York papers, the World and the Journal. The term alluded to a comicstrip character dubbed “The Yellow Kid,” who symbolized the frenzied competition between the two papers that pushed them to such journalistic extremes. Although the World and the Journal were the original “yellow journals,” their pro table approach to news was picked up by other newspapers in New York and across the country in the 1890s.
