Question

How did the yellow journalism get its name?

Answer 1

The term “yellow journalism” was first used in the early 1900s to describe what was happening in the major New York newspapers. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst owned the two largest newspapers in New York City. They wanted to make money and have people read their papers. To do this, they used exaggerated headlines on their front pages. Newsies, the kids and teens who sold the newspapers, always hoped for good headlines; to make more money, they sometimes exaggerated the headlines on their own, so they could also sell more papers.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is from FL Middle School Journalism: Tell Your Story v2.0 [103066] Unit 9 Lesson 3 Luring in Readers

Answer 2

The term yellow journalism was coined by Erwin Wardman, the editor of New York Press, and it referred to the comic strip "The Yellow Kid", that was published from 1895 to 1898 in Josephs Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. Yellow journalism, or yellow press is a kind of journalism which uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers, instead of well-researched new and quality texts. Some of the characteristics of yellow journalism are huge headlines and minor news, and lavish use of pictures or drawings...