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Print media

Newspaper and magazines

Broadcast media

Radio and television

New Media

Source of political information that are not a part of traditional print or broadcast media. Primarily found in digital sources, new media are characterized by their interactivity or the consumers role in defining and shaping the information.

Watchdog media

Investigative journalism

Market-driven journalism

Private ownership of media encourages journalistic practices driven by increasing advertising revenue, circulation, and profit margins.

Soft news

Combines information and entertainment

Slander

Published material that damages someone's reputation or character

Libel

Defamation in written form

Yellow journalism

A style of reporting in which journalist exaggerate or even fabricate news stories too increase circulation

Agenda setting

The process of getting issues on the political agenda, or those issues to which the public and decision-makers are paying attention and on which there is active political debate

Priming

The process by which the media influence the way people think about an issue or event through its presentation of information, media shape how people consider issues and events and interpret related information

Framing

The process by which media encourages viewers to interpret journalistic stories in a particular way

Narrow casting

Spreading an advertising message or signal over a small area

Media events

An event or activity that exists for the sole purpose of media publicity

Soundbites

A short recorded statement that is broadcast on a television or radio news program

Partisan Press Era

The period from late 1700s to the mid 1800s when newspapers typically supported a particular political party