Chapter 1- Newspapers (history/types/decline)

Question 1

The history of newspapers.

Answer 1

Printed newspapers = oldest forms of mass media 📜📸🎞+ roughly 300 years old.👴👴👴

Mass literacy the norm 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦📝= 
due to (1880 Education Act) = newspapers began to have a wider circulation.🩸

Broad generic expectations established 🛳👱🏻‍♀️🤔=
local newspapers reported primarily on local news
Newspapers founded in big cities = began focusing on national affairs

Eventually 3 types of newspapers emerged w/ diff news views

Question 2

Name one type of of news paper and it’s news value

Answer 2

Local papers🏡 / broadsheets 🛳📄= debate politics 👮🏼‍♀️and report on global affairs🌎👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Question 3

Name another type of of news paper and it’s news value

Answer 3

Tabloids (entertainment🍿 / headline grabbers🤭/ focus on domestic issues🏠)

Question 4

The decline of circulation in almost all major newspapers.

Why
Result
Problem

Answer 4

The decline of circulation in all major newspapers = Two factors

1) Increase usage of internet (as a news source) 👩‍💻
2) The advent of 24 hour news culture on T.V 📺

Result= many newspapers have tried to

migrate a portion of their services 🕊

to digital models 📲 (some successful than others)

Problem = newspapers heavily reliant on advertising for income 💄💵

= unable to command same level of payments from advertisers (who can find online hosts🦟 for their content 💊at a more competitive price)