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Abramson, Phyllis, Leslie.  Sob Sister Journalism<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony, David.  Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre Tabloid Newspapers a Menace?\u201d  Forum<\/em> 77 (April 1927): 485-501.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banks, Elizabeth L.  \u201cAmerican Yellow Journalism.\u201d The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review<\/em> (August 1898): 328-340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbas, Samantha.\u00a0Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood\u2019s Notorious Scandal Magazine<\/em>. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernhardt, Mark. \u201cThe Selling of Sex, Sleaze, Scuttlebutt, and Other Shocking Sensations: The Evolution of New Journalism in San Francisco, 1887-1900.\u201d\u00a0American Journalism<\/em>\u00a028, no. 4 (2011): 111\u2013142.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bessie, Simon M. Jazz Journalism: The Story of the Tabloid Newspapers<\/em>.  New York: Russell & Russell, 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird, S. Elizabeth, and Robert W. Dardenne.  “News and Storytelling in American Culture: Re-evaluating the Sensational Dimension.”  Journal of American Culture<\/em> 13 (Summer 1990): 33-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird, S. Elizabeth.  For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil, John R.  “Murder Trials, Murder, and Twenties America.”  American Quarterly<\/em> 33:2 (1981): 163-84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brodkey, Harold.  “The Last Word on Winchell.”  New Yorker<\/em>, 30 January 1995, 71-78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks, Sydney.  \u201cThe American Yellow Press.\u201d The Living Age<\/em> 272 (1912): 67-76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budd, Louis J.  \u201cColor Him Curious About Yellow Journalism: Mark Twain and the New York Press.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>15:2 (1981): 25-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calder, Iain.  The Untold Story: My Twenty Years Running the National Enquirer.<\/em>  New York: Mirmax Books, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell, W. Joseph. Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies.  <\/em>Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassuto, Leonard.  Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories<\/em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapman, John.  Tell it to Sweeney: An Informal History of the New York Daily News<\/em>.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, Lester.  The New York Graphic: The World’s Zaniest Newspaper<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Chilton, 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commander, Lydia K.  \u201cThe Significance of Yellow Journalism.\u201d  Arena<\/em> 34 (August 1905).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

deRochemont, Richard G.  “The Tabloids.”  American Mercury<\/em> (October 1926).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endres, Kathleen L.  \u201cThe Feminism of Bernarr Macfadden: Physical Culture<\/em> Magazine and the Empowerment of Women.\u201d  Media History Monographs<\/em> 13:2 (2011): 1-14.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ernst, Robert.  Weakness is a Crime: The Life of Bernarr MacFadden<\/em>. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991. (New York Evening Graphic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evensen, Bruce J.  When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeley, Kathleen A.  “Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: The Rise of the Celebrity Gossip Industry in Twentieth Century America.”   PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzpatrick, Shannon. True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franke, Warren T.  “An Argument in Defense of Sensationalism: Probing the Popular and Historiographical Concept.” Journalism History<\/em> 5 (1978): 70-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabler, Neal. Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity. <\/em>New York: Knopf, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gauvreau, Emil.  Hot News<\/em>.  New York: Macaulay, 1931.  (New York tabloid scene)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gauvreau, Emil.  My Last Million Readers<\/em>.  New York: Dutton, 1941.  (NY Evening Graphic, Mirror)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glynn, Kevin.  Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gorn, Elliot J.  “The Wicked World: The National Police Gazette<\/em> and Gilded Age America.”  Media Studies Journal<\/em> 6:1 (Winter 1992): 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenberg, Gerald S.  Tabloid Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holley, Val.  Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, Sarah. \u201cAmerican Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000.\u201d Journal of American Studies<\/em>51:3 (2017): 692-729.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inglis, Fred.  A Short History of Celebrity.<\/em> Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson, Jessica E. \u201cSensationalism in the Newsroom: Its Yellow Beginnings, the Nineteenth Century Legal Transformation, and the Current Seizure of the American Press.\u201d Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy<\/em> 19 (no. 2, 2005): 789-\u00ad816.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirby, Terry.\u00a0\u00a0The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0London: Reaktion Books, 2024. Mostly about UK media, but includes some on US<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knight, Denise D. \u201cCharlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the Practice of Ethical Journalism.\u201d\u00a0American Journalism<\/em>\u00a011, no. 4 (1994): 336\u2013347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lutes, Jean M.  “Into the Madhouse with Nellie Bly: Girl Stunt Reporting in Late Nineteenth Century America.”  American Quarterly<\/em> 54 (June 2002): 217-253.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lutes, Jean M.  “Sob Sisterism Revisited.”  American Literary History<\/em> 15 (Fall 2003): 504-532.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonough, Daniel.  \u201cChicago Press Treatment of the Gangster, 1934-1931.\u201d Illinois Historical Journal<\/em> 82 (1989): 17-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macfaden, Mary, and Emil Gauvreau.  Dumbells<\/em> and Carrot Stripes: The Story of Bernarr Macfadden<\/em>.  New York: Holt, 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGivena, Leo E.  The News: The First 50 Years of New York’s Picture Newspaper<\/em>.  New York: News Syndicate Co., 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGraw, John P.  “A History of the National Enquirer.” PhD dissertation, Southern Mississippi, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mallere, Frank.  Sauce for the Gander<\/em>.  White Plains: Baldwin Books, 1954.  (history of NY Evening Graphic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michal, Eileen M. \u201cPicture-Loving: Photomechanical Reproduction and Celebrity in America\u2019s Gilded Age.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, Douglas W.  \u201cThe New York Tabloids.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 5 (1928): 36-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morton, Paula E.  Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture<\/em>.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mosedale, John.  The Men Who Invented Broadway: Daymon Runyon, Walter Winchell, and their World.  <\/em>New York: Marek, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oursler, Fulton.  The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden<\/em>.  New York: Lewis Copeland, 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parsons, Louella.  Tell it To Louella<\/em>.  New York: Putnam’s, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pompeo, Joe.  Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime<\/em>.  New York: William Morrow, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ponce de Leon, Charles L.  Self-Exposure: Human Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reel, Guy. \u201cThis Wicked World: Masculinities and Portrayals of Sex, Crime, and Sports in the National Police Gazette,<\/em> 1879\u00ad1906.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 22 (Winter 2005): 61-\u00ad94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riffenburgh, Beau.  The Myth of the Explorer: The Press, Sensationalism, and Geographical Discovery<\/em>.  New York: Belhaven, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sachsman, David B., and David W. Bulla, eds.  Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th<\/sup> Century Reporting<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Transaction, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, Henry E.  Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of<\/em> Confidential, America\u2019s Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine<\/em>.  New York: Pantheon, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaw, Donald L., and John W. Slater. “In the Eye of the Beholder?: Sensationalism in American Press News, 1820-1860.” Journalism History<\/em> 12 (Winter 1985): 86-91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shoplik, Anthony.  \u201cAnita Loos\u2019s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the \u2018Colyumn\u2019: Sophistication, Publicity, and Jazz Journalism.\u201d Journal of Modern Periodical Studies<\/em> 13:2 (2022): 276-298.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slide, Anthony.  Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers<\/em>.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sloan, Bill.  I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby!: A Colorful History of Tabloids and their Cultural Impact<\/em>.  Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Gene, and Jane Barry Smith, eds.  The Police Gazette<\/em>.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stevens, John D.  Sensationalism and the New York Press.<\/em> <\/em>New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas, Bob.  Winchell<\/em>.  Garden City: Doubleday, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallace, Aurora.  \u201cTabloids and the City: The New York Daily News, the New York Daily Mirror, and the New York Evening Graphic.\u201d  Chapter 1 of Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallach, Glenn.  \u201cA Depraved Taste for Publicity: The Press and Private Life in the Gilded Age.\u201d  American Studies<\/em> 39:1 (Spring 1998): 31-57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wardle, Claire.  \u201cMonsters and Angels: A Comparison of Broadsheet and Tabloid Press Coverage of Child Murders from the US and UK, 1930\u20132000.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. 

Weiner, Ed.  Let’s Go to Press: A Biography of Walter Winchell<\/em>.  New York: Putnam’s, 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welky, David.  “We Are the People!: Idealized Working Class Society in the National Police Gazette.”  Mid-Ameican<\/em> 84 (Winter 2002): 101-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weston, Mary Ann.  “The Daily Illustrated Times: Chicago’s Tabloid Newspaper.”  Journalism History<\/em> 16:3\/4 (Summer-Autumn 1989): 76-86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiltenburg, Joy.  \u201cTrue Crime<\/em>: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism.\u201d  American Historical Review<\/em> 109: 5 (December 2004): 1377-1403.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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