In 2017, the news is at our fingertips and the power of information is in our hands. We have the ability to curate the type of news we want to read and the information we want to digest. Although technology has changed over time, the ability of companies to gain customers and consumers has not. That practice of business has never been more relatable than the business of newspapers. In 1978, Michael Schudson, a professor of communications and historian of the development of mass media in the United States wrote the book “Discovering the News”. In an excerpt in the his book titled, “New Journalism”, Schudson discusses the relationship the people of New York City had with the news. He categorizes newspapers into two models of journalism as the
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Whether it be to make the reader laugh, think or cry, this form of journalism is associated with “enjoyability” through entertainment. Schudson credits Joseph Pulitzer and his leadership with the newspaper the New York World as paving the way for “story” journalism. Pulitzer is famous for rationalizing newspapers’ business practices and the relations between newspaper and advertisers. With a lot of flashy advertisements and bold headlines, the newspaper was designed to catch the eye. Melville Stone, of the Chicago Morning News said “the newspaper had three functions: to inform, to interpret and to entertain.” With the newspaper being the first to hire a portrait artist and a cartoonist, this form of journalism was bound to turn heads. With the Sunday paper being the weekly staple of entertainment, by 1889, one out of two New Yorkers bought the Sunday paper. This comes as little surprise as the city was beginning to fill with immigrant workers and the middle class starting to commute for work. With the rise in public transportation, for middle class could now be driven to work, thus allowed for their hands to be free. The allowed ample time to read the daily paper. But with the rise in transportation, came the rise in entertainment. Workers wanted more visuals and larger fonts, so they could read the newspaper while on the bumpy trains and buses. …show more content…
The New York Times was founded in 1851 with the goal of setting the standard of journalism. Schudson associates “information” journalism with “fairness, objectivity, and scrupulous dispassion” and the New York Times could not be a better example. While The World and The Journal took the path of entertainment, The Times took the path of factuality. Reporter and Newspaper critic Will Irwin wrote in 1911 that The Times came, “the nearest of any newspaper to presenting a truthful picture of life in New York and the world at large.” While the middle and working class had the entertainment magazines, New York’s elite and upper class had the New York Times. With small font and and a tagline of “Everything Fit To Print”, The Times delivered the facts. As a reader of the New York Times put it, “The Times attracted readers among the wealthy and among those aspiring to wealth and stud, in part, because it was socially approved.” As a newspaper catered for the elite, it became a popular saying that The Times “did not spoil the breakfast cloth.” As entertainment newspapers began to print in color, The Times kept with black and white style. While The World would literally leak ink into white cloth, The Times would not. Contrasting the style of Life magazine, from the same time period the two forms of media are drastically different. The Times is cookie cutter black and white, with every line smiling measured
Whether it be to make the reader laugh, think or cry, this form of journalism is associated with “enjoyability” through entertainment. Schudson credits Joseph Pulitzer and his leadership with the newspaper the New York World as paving the way for “story” journalism. Pulitzer is famous for rationalizing newspapers’ business practices and the relations between newspaper and advertisers. With a lot of flashy advertisements and bold headlines, the newspaper was designed to catch the eye. Melville Stone, of the Chicago Morning News said “the newspaper had three functions: to inform, to interpret and to entertain.” With the newspaper being the first to hire a portrait artist and a cartoonist, this form of journalism was bound to turn heads. With the Sunday paper being the weekly staple of entertainment, by 1889, one out of two New Yorkers bought the Sunday paper. This comes as little surprise as the city was beginning to fill with immigrant workers and the middle class starting to commute for work. With the rise in public transportation, for middle class could now be driven to work, thus allowed for their hands to be free. The allowed ample time to read the daily paper. But with the rise in transportation, came the rise in entertainment. Workers wanted more visuals and larger fonts, so they could read the newspaper while on the bumpy trains and buses. …show more content…
The New York Times was founded in 1851 with the goal of setting the standard of journalism. Schudson associates “information” journalism with “fairness, objectivity, and scrupulous dispassion” and the New York Times could not be a better example. While The World and The Journal took the path of entertainment, The Times took the path of factuality. Reporter and Newspaper critic Will Irwin wrote in 1911 that The Times came, “the nearest of any newspaper to presenting a truthful picture of life in New York and the world at large.” While the middle and working class had the entertainment magazines, New York’s elite and upper class had the New York Times. With small font and and a tagline of “Everything Fit To Print”, The Times delivered the facts. As a reader of the New York Times put it, “The Times attracted readers among the wealthy and among those aspiring to wealth and stud, in part, because it was socially approved.” As a newspaper catered for the elite, it became a popular saying that The Times “did not spoil the breakfast cloth.” As entertainment newspapers began to print in color, The Times kept with black and white style. While The World would literally leak ink into white cloth, The Times would not. Contrasting the style of Life magazine, from the same time period the two forms of media are drastically different. The Times is cookie cutter black and white, with every line smiling measured