Journalists who worked for newspapers like william randolph hearst’s new york journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

The answer that best completes the statement above is YELLOW JOURNALISTS. This is the name of the journalists that refers to those who worked for William Randolph Hearst. This type of journalism is what we call Yellow Journalism. The only focus of this kind of journalism is to have more sales not thinking of how legitimate their news are. It uses catchy headlines in order to attract readers.