Newspaper

The history of Journalism is something so unique to study. Media has improved in so many ways over time. Looking back to the ways people received their news, I come to realization that there are many differences. The speed of time as well as strategies taken to express information are just a few examples. The earliest methods of transmitting news was through words written, which possibly limited its content to what people took out of the message. The accuracy of what was processed depended on…

product was another reason why newspapers used gate-keeping strategies (White, 1997), and the potential opinion of such stakeholders as advertisers and readers was also a consideration (Shoemaker, 1997; Tichenor, Donohue & Olien, 1980). Community newspaper editors in particular experience challenges when deciding what content to publish (Tichenor, Donohue & Olien, 1980; Donohue & Olien, 1997). This relates to the dual role in business and editorial that community newspaper editors typically…

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…

These activities will help you learn more about bias, the role of the press and our role as news consumers. 1. Explore the idea of bias through a class exercise. On the board or on pieces of paper around the room, write the names of types/groups of people at your school. Then give students 10 minutes to walk around the room and write the adjectives they associate with these labels. Have a class discussion about the words that emerge. Which are positive? Which are negative? Are the students…

argument makes the most sense and how I agree with him. Alvin Goldman thinks that the reason why people aren’t engaging in the newspaper in the United States, is due to the fact of the growing popularity of the internet or blogosphere and what it has to offer, and the newspaper has less credibility than it once did. Goldman states people are not engaging in the newspaper as they once did and people are focusing more on the internet or blogosphere it is a threat to traditional…

Raja Ullah Mr. Young English III 21 November 2015 Freedom of the Press The freedom of the press is one of the many rights needed for an American citizen. The right to a free press means that the right government does not have the right to censor the press. Censorship is when the government prohibits the press from reporting news. The freedom of the press is an integral part of American life and it has been upheld by the Supreme Court on numerous occasions, still, the freedom is in jeopardy due…

Esquire, thinks it would be a good thing if more photographs of death and dying were published by newspapers (176) and gives many reasons why but I’m going to have to disagree with her. The Boston Photographs was an article that talks about images of a woman who died in a tragic accident in 1975. What really sparked up the conversation was that her dead body was published in the article in the Boston newspaper. It all began when Stanly Forman a photojournalist attempted to capture images that…

America’s first political cartoon, “Join, or Die” was created as an influence to colonial citizens during the French and Indian War. Benjamin Franklin, the creator of “Join, or Die”, featured his cartoon on May 9, 1754 in the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper. Franklin’s cartoon proved to be rhetorically effective by his usage of symbolism, application to all three points on the rhetorical triangle, and his appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos. During Franklin’s era, there was a myth that a severed…

Many believe that there are many disadvantages to technological improvements, for example decreasing face-to-face interactions and displacing old media like newspapers and books with Kindle e-books and mobile apps. This is a controversy for scholars of technology and media who see this as an attack on intellectual property, originality, and the need for productive discourse and centralized media. While others…

adapting the forms content and uses provided. Currently, as a form of media, it has transcended to the most efficient one out there, being able to provide the functions of its predecessors and categorical competitions, such as televisions, radios, newspapers etc. The incorporation of itself along with every type of media presented to the public is achieved by social media through its ability to deliver information with both audio and visual means, and on that note, it is no wonder as to why…