Newspaper Flashcards
Her Favorite Movie
All the President’s Men
Newspapers’ roles
inform, entertain, interpret, advise and transmit culture
Newspapers Today
More news is digital not print newspaper
financial problems for print, job cuts and ad revenues down
Digital Sites for New’s
Gawker, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post
History
First Paper=china
Frist Daily-Acta Diurna-Rome
Corantos-17th century Europe
England (local, national, foreign news)
U.S Journalism Eras
Partisan Press, Penny Press, Objective Journalism, Interpretive Journalism, Literary Journalism
First U.S Newspaper
Broadsheets
The Benjamin: Journalistic Independence
Challenges Authority, Gains Advertising support, lessens dependence on government contracts, and financial independence=editorial independence
John Peter Zenger
Editor of New-York Weekly Journal, was charged with seditious libel (criticism of government, inflammatory, even if true) Printed=Guilty
Foundation of First Amendment
Zenger is free from chargers, newspapers are free from control, newspapers fuel the revolutionary war
Backsliding
alien and sedition act: illegal to write,publish, print any false, malicious, writing about government
Colonial Press
Political or commercial, partisan, elite (educated white men),
little attention to women’s interests and legacy: editorial, business pages
Penny Press
industrial revolution, cheaper printing, larger audience, street sales and new for the rest of us
Where was the Penny Press born?
NYC because it is densely populated, diverse population, center of culture/commerce and audiences can be “sold” to advertisers
What is the characteristics of the Penny Press?
Scandals, crimes
Entertainment and human interets stories
What is beyond the mainstream?
Freedom’s Journal, the North Star, and Chicago Defender
What types of papers are beyond the mainstream?
Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee Rose Bud, Lakota Times, and Navajo Times
Wire Services
Pool efforts, share expenses
gather, distribute news
more news, more coverage, larger audiences, rewrites and reduced expenses to increase profits
The Yellow Kid
Had big headlines, crime and disaster stories and cartoons/ color
The Age of Objectivity
scientific inquiry, facts separate from options, competing points and views
What is an inverted pyramid?
who, what, when, where, why and how
List what the pyramid is:
one top: Most important facts second: 2nd most important third: 3rd most important Fourth: 4th most important Fifth: 5th most important
What happened to news papers today?
transitioned from print to digital, ad sales are down, circulation is down, employees laid off, and start closing
Who is reading the newspapers now?
whites, educated(graduate degrees), higher-income and over 65
Why aren’t people reading newspaper?
don’t have time, aren’t convenient, newspapers are biased and people don’t like to read, they aren’t interested
What are the national dailies?
WSJ, USA Today
Large metropolitan dailies
(5 times and week)
What other newspaper are there?
Suburban and small-town dailies, weeklies and semi-weeklies
Today’s trends?
firewall is dead-or close to dying
big breakdown between editorial, advertising.
Little competitions and chains
What are the pressures with todays trends?
ad sales and profit, 10 cents gained for ever $1 lost in ad revenue
The Paywall
some content for those who pay
Internet age
ad revenue go online, young readers prefer online, going local and searchable news
Why Newspapers?
a super bowl everyday
good demographic
most trusted, more credible and home advantage
Hard vs. Soft News
hard news- what you need to know to make democracy work
Soft news- what is fun to know
What is always possible
ads pay for things for newspapers
