there audience, who is consuming there product such as TV, radio and newspapers. This can be done by calculating how many individuals are consuming and what type of gender, age and class they are or by more in-depth research such as ethnography and interviews. Classifying media audiences according to class can be seen as useful particularly within the media industry in regards to the sale of advertising. For instance, newspapers are aimed at different class’s, the Daily Mail being aimed at the…
Throughout the world, articles about terrorism are placed into people’s mailboxes and the local newsstands and grocery stores. These articles may go into great detail about a specific act of violence used by extremists like the attacks in New York City on September 11th, 2001, depicting the attack as a worldly problem. But, the simpler article may just explain about the idea of terrorism and the threats it may have towards the world or the resources the extremists want in order to possibly rule…
From the aspect of content, online journalism has a huge coverage. For example, ‘Xinhua News’ (http://www.news.cn/english/) as an professional online journalism, the amount of information in homepage at least equal to dozens newspaper of the ‘New York Times’ (Figure X). Nowadays, every audience can participate in discussion of news events equally, they also can use online social media platform to disseminate and release news. Online journalism 's lack of a traditional "editor"…
we do ourselves, it has been around for a much longer time than people think. One of the first forms of media in America was the Publik Occurrence newspaper in 1690. There was only one addition because of its illegality, but it was still the first attempt at spreading the news to a larger audience in an effective way. Another brief pursuit of a newspaper was the Boston Newsletter. While this was funded by the government back in 1704, it did not receive enough attention or circulation to keep it…
corruption in Washington D.C. In James Siegel’s novel Deceit, a journalist who ruined his career by writing false stories also redeems himself when he risks his life in order to uncover a conspiracy that involves murder. In Ace in the Hole, the newspaper reporter allows a trapped man to die in a cave for the sake of a story. He ends up getting stabbed to death by the trapper man’s wife. In all these given instances, each journalist who lacked intentions of serving the good of the people ends…
The book Media Essentials discusses how advancements in technology have changed the way news is presented. From newspaper to broadcast, the format of how news circulates has lead many to question if the information published in the daily newspaper is the same information televised on network stations. To what extent does having an anchor read the news changed how the message is perceived as opposed to reading the article yourself? Is this change better or worse for the modern-day society? In…
stores, the internet and social media have vastly changed how the paper must conduct their business today. Access to media news websites online have been the primary cause of the dismantling of the circulation and subscription numbers for print newspapers. News sources maintaining…
Photoshop is behind many photojournalists’ downfalls. There is a thing line between correcting the color or brightness in the photo and cropping in or out an unwanted object in the photo. Being a photojournalist you have to be extra cautious in order to not cross that line. However, last year in 2016, photographer Steve McCurry was accused of doing this very thing. McCurry was first called out by Paolo Viglione, a fellow photographer, when an image from Cuba was found where the Photoshop editing…
Francis Brett Hart was born August 28, 1836 in Albany, New York. His parents were Elizabeth and Henry Hart. Bret Harte did not have a great relationship with his, in fact, his father had included the “e” in Hart to distance himself from Francis. His father had worked in an Albany private school which eventually got run out. The family kept moving around in the North Atlantic states so Henry Harte could have a job as a teacher. In 1845, Henry dies, which leaves the the family to ask for money…
Community newspapers often allow the audience to write a considerable portion of published news. The submitted material could be wedding announcements, club news, sports scores, photographs, or nearly any type of material, and represents user-generated content. Smaller…