:вЂЉ53 William d'Alton Mann, owner of the scandal sheet Town Topics, explained his purpose: 'My ambition is to reform the Four Hundred by making them too deeply disgusted with themselves to continue their silly, empty way of life.' :вЂЉ93 Many scandal sheets in the U.S. :вЂЉ11вЂ“14 Other Georgian era scandal sheets were Theodore Hook's John Bull, Charles Molloy Westmacott's The Age, and Barnard Gregory's The Satirist. Reverend Henry Bate was the editor of one of the earliest scandal sheets, The Morning Post, which specialized in printing malicious society gossip, selling positive mentions in its pages, and collecting suppression fees to keep stories unpublished.

Around 1770, scandal sheets appeared in London, and in the United States as early as the 1840s. Scandal sheets were the precursors to tabloid journalism. Tabloid journalism has changed over the last decade to more online platforms that seek to target and engage youth consumers with celebrity news and entertainment. Publications engaging in tabloid journalism are known as rag newspapers. In some cases, celebrities have successfully sued for libel, demonstrating that tabloid stories have defamed them. Not all newspapers associated with tabloid journalism are tabloid size, and not all tabloid-size newspapers engage in tabloid journalism in particular, since around the year 2000 many broadsheet newspapers converted to the more compact tabloid format. The size became associated with sensationalism, and tabloid journalism replaced the earlier label of yellow journalism and scandal sheets. Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism (usually dramatized and sometimes unverifiable or even blatantly false), which takes its name from the format: a small-sized newspaper (half broadsheet).

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