tattler

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Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts to compete with The Post.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2020

In that sense, Tabloid is like an episode of Jerry Springer or Maury, except that the tattler on-camera is not confronted halfway through the show by her adversary.

From Time • Jul. 14, 2011

Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press.

From Time Magazine Archive

"At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself."

From Time Magazine Archive

It's the smile from every single portrait, painting, newspaper, tattler, and scandal sheet.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton