“Yellow Journalism” Comes from Cartoon Character “Yellow Kid”

Trivia
on July 30, 2006

In the 1890s, The New York World tested color ink with yellow on the nightshirt of a cartoon character drawn by Richard Outcault, creating the popular “Yellow Kid” and the term “yellow journalism.” Outcault was born in 1863 in Lancaster (pop. 35,335).

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