In 1963, gunshots rang out in Central, Hong Kong, when a police officer fired at an armed robber who’d turned his gun on him. In court the suspect, a former Chinese solider, unexpectedly pleaded guilty.
Tabloid journalism, type of popular, largely sensationalistic journalism that takes its name from the format of a small newspaper, roughly half the size of an ordinary broadsheet. Tabloid journalism is not, however, found only in newspapers, and not every newspaper that is printed in tabloid format