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With USA Today debuting in 1982, it has continued to focus on innovative avenues for continued success and growth as the preferred news source. Personally, I am a very visual news consumer; therefore, what I enjoy most about the USA Today newspaper is the visual and eye catching content it has embedded within the paper -- digital and print versions. The vision the stakeholders had prior to the launch of USA Today was to have a unique approach to an audience and provide more news in less time…

With many calling the death of the traditional newspaper imminent, journalists and editors are forced to make risky decisions to stay afloat in a changing news marketplace and media environment. Competing with blogs and social media that can generate more content at much lower margins, owners are pressuring their newspapers to cut costs and produce content by any means necessary . In his article “Ethical Values and Quality Control in the Digital Era”, Bob Steele argues that the journalistic…

Gene Weingarten writer for the Washington post published "Pearls before Breakfast" on April 8th, 2007. The publication became well recognized and won a Pultizer award in 2008. Pearls before Breakfast analysis” was based on an experiment with musician Joshua Bell, Where he posed as a street musician, he was placed in an uniformed environment wearing only a Washington nationals baseball cap and a long sleeve t-shirt with jeans, where mostly government employees were on their way to work and going…

The internet has been taken over with clickbaits. They are mostly found on social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Buzzfeed. The origin of clickbait can go back all the way to the nineteenth century. At that time, the media called it “yellow journalism”. Clickbait lures people into clicking on a link on a website by using titles that are eye-catching and present. It is usually created to gain more views and money. Clickbait comes in many different shapes and sizes. They can be video…

Introduction and Background “How the Big Tobacco Deal Went Bad” written by Jim Estes attempts to cause reform by educating the public about the misuse of funds for self-interest by the government politicians. The New York Times The New York Times is a periodical published daily in New York and its online newspaper. The target audience of the newspaper is educated and younger individuals that have political affiliations. This newspaper has liberal political views while raising awareness on…

It was pretty normal to see a missing persons' report in the local newspaper. People seemed to go missing every once a month in the town of Terre Mortes. Nobody seemed to know what the hell happened to them after they went missing, because no one ever came back. Almost every day the police ran up and down the roads attempting to find just a hint of evidence. They never found any of course. Honestly, whoever took the people must have been amazing at hiding anything and everything. The whole town…

Cartoon Language Analysis The cartoon I have chosen to do is The Lifeguard. It was created by artist Mark Knight. Mark Knight published this cartoon in the Herald Sun on 22 January 2014. The issue explored in this cartoon is the lifeguard’s statement on the impact of the manufacturers that will not be rescued by the government. The artist contends to the audience that the cut down of carbon would benefit manufacturers to be considerable. Moreover, the cut down of carbon would help their…

I chose two articles about the shooting of the unarmed teen, Mike Brown, by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri back in August of 2014. This story sparked a lot of controversy and resulted in an outbreak of riots and protests. The first article I read was published by the New York Times this article focused very little on the facts of the case and was written in a way that appeals more to the reader’s emotional side. I feel like in this article they were more focused on making a story…

USA Today captured an unmet need in the market for professionals, students and households that had not been tapped until Gannett seized the opportunity in the 80’s. He reached a segment of the market where readers were in a time crunch to obtain news and relevant consumer information in an expedited convenient manner. He met unmet needs where people were not happy about flipping from page to page to continue the article of interest, so he kept the articles to a single page with the only…

conspiracy. Moreover, Ferdinand stripped the political freedom of Bohemia and the Second Defenestration of Prague sparked a new war, which lead to thirty years of destruction of towns and villages affecting not only people but European society too. Broadsheets depicted mercenary armies of the warring countries razing…