Yellow journalism is a term for sensational and exaggerated news coverage to attract readers, originating from the competition between New York City papers owned by journalism icons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst in the 1890s. Although yellow journalism fell out of favor at the beginning of the 20th century, its legacy lives on in ways both benign (banner headlines and color) and pernicious (clickbait and fake news).
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