Gossip magazine

The term Boulevard in the media derives from the street sale of so-called tabloids, the terms tabloid journalism and tabloid media represent a distinct genre in the field of journalism.

Boulevard formats

For the tabloids or colloquially tabloids (English: tabloids ) are predominantly published daily newspapers, predominantly on the road - the "Boulevard " - sold, so usually not sold by subscription, as well as magazines on a subscription are usually available and in usually published weekly or every 14 days. The magazines are colloquially referred to as " yellow press ". In contrast to pure news media is reporting the emotionalisierte are represented on flat rate and shortens facts or distorted in tabloids a common means to withhold the information or not.

In radio and television Boulevard topics are often published in magazine formats in which disasters, accidents, crime, fashion, celebrity and consumer issues are at the forefront. The mixture of information and entertainment that originated in the U.S. television since the early 1990s is referred to as " infotainment ". A special form is the so-called " reality TV ", which consists for example of police reports or similar documentation and on the other from long- time shows like " Big Brother" but also " Pop Idol". Popular TV- formats are supported extensively by the tabloids.

Tabloidisation

A study by the University of Jena confirmed an increasing tabloidisation of television news. The communication scientist Georg Ruhrmann named in his study commissioned by the Association of Journalists Network Research: " The choice of messages is no longer oriented in any case only to journalistic timeliness criteria. Customer demand and satisfaction are also in demand. The ' service orientation ' play an increasingly important role. " Messages Topics especially the private stations are in his opinion, apolitical and reinforced displaced by issues of human destinies, such as disasters and crime. "The news personalization factors, controversy and aggression take the journalists surveyed, according to".

Examples of tabloid formats

TV

  • Flash ( Sat.1 )
  • Brisant (MDR )
  • The magazine ( Sat.1 )
  • Exclusive - The Star Magazine (RTL)
  • Twilight - The Magazine (RTL)
  • High & mighty ( SF)
  • Hello Germany ( ZDF)
  • Hi Society ( ATV)
  • People today ( ZDF)
  • Prominent! (VOX)
  • STARS & stories ( Sat.1 )
  • Item 6, item 9, item 12 (RTL)
  • SAM ( ProSieben)
  • Taff ( ProSieben)

Newspapers and magazines

German -speaking

Germany:

  • Evening paper ( Munich, Nuremberg; publishing The evening newspaper )
  • B.Z. (Berlin, Axel Springer AG)
  • Berliner Kurier (Berliner Verlag, part of the German newspaper Holding BV )
  • Image (Axel Springer AG)
  • EXPRESS ( Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf, M. DuMont )
  • Morgenpost (Hamburg, German newspaper BV Holding)
  • Tz (Munich, Munich newspaper Verlag GmbH )

Austria:

  • The whole week
  • Today ( Vienna; AHW Verlags GmbH, . Complimentary)
  • Kronen Zeitung
  • News
  • Austria
  • Bz - district of Vienna newspaper

Luxembourg:

  • Private

Switzerland:

  • View ( Ringier AG)
  • Le Matin ( Edipresse; French-speaking)

English -speaking

  • New York Post (USA)
  • The Daily Mirror (UK )
  • The Daily Telegraph ( Australia) ( AUS)
  • The National Enquirer (USA)
  • The New York Daily News ( USA)
  • The Sun (UK )

Other language areas

Subscription business model Big Brother (TV series) VOX (TV channel) Taff (TV series) B.Z. (newspaper) Die ganze Woche Blick The Daily Telegraph (Australia) The Sun (United Kingdom) Fakt Urs Jaeggi Neil Postman Rheinischer Merkur
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