Broken tabloid journalist embracing the German (8)
I believe the answer is:
sundered
'broken' is the definition.
'tabloid journalist embracing the german' is the wordplay.
'tabloid' becomes 'sun' (The Sun, UK newspaper).
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'embracing' is an insertion indicator.
'the german' becomes 'der' ('the' in German).
'sun'+'ed'='suned'
'suned' enclosing 'der' is 'SUNDERED'.
(Other definitions for sundered that I've seen before include "Torn apart, severed" , "Split apart" , "rent" , "separated" , "Broke apart or in two" .)