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Her Favorite Movie

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All the President’s Men

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Newspapers’ roles

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inform, entertain, interpret, advise and transmit culture

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Newspapers Today

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More news is digital not print newspaper

financial problems for print, job cuts and ad revenues down

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Digital Sites for New’s

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Gawker, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post

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History

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First Paper=china
Frist Daily-Acta Diurna-Rome
Corantos-17th century Europe
England (local, national, foreign news)

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U.S Journalism Eras

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Partisan Press, Penny Press, Objective Journalism, Interpretive Journalism, Literary Journalism

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First U.S Newspaper

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Broadsheets

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The Benjamin: Journalistic Independence

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Challenges Authority, Gains Advertising support, lessens dependence on government contracts, and financial independence=editorial independence

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John Peter Zenger

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Editor of New-York Weekly Journal, was charged with seditious libel (criticism of government, inflammatory, even if true) Printed=Guilty

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Foundation of First Amendment

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Zenger is free from chargers, newspapers are free from control, newspapers fuel the revolutionary war

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Backsliding

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alien and sedition act: illegal to write,publish, print any false, malicious, writing about government

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Colonial Press

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Political or commercial, partisan, elite (educated white men),
little attention to women’s interests and legacy: editorial, business pages

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Penny Press

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industrial revolution, cheaper printing, larger audience, street sales and new for the rest of us

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Where was the Penny Press born?

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NYC because it is densely populated, diverse population, center of culture/commerce and audiences can be “sold” to advertisers

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What is the characteristics of the Penny Press?

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Scandals, crimes

Entertainment and human interets stories

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What is beyond the mainstream?

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Freedom’s Journal, the North Star, and Chicago Defender

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What types of papers are beyond the mainstream?

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Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee Rose Bud, Lakota Times, and Navajo Times

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Wire Services

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Pool efforts, share expenses
gather, distribute news
more news, more coverage, larger audiences, rewrites and reduced expenses to increase profits

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The Yellow Kid

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Had big headlines, crime and disaster stories and cartoons/ color

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The Age of Objectivity

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scientific inquiry, facts separate from options, competing points and views

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What is an inverted pyramid?

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who, what, when, where, why and how

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List what the pyramid is:

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one top: Most important facts
second: 2nd most important
third:  3rd most important
Fourth: 4th most important
Fifth: 5th most important
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What happened to news papers today?

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transitioned from print to digital, ad sales are down, circulation is down, employees laid off, and start closing

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Who is reading the newspapers now?

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whites, educated(graduate degrees), higher-income and over 65

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Why aren’t people reading newspaper?

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don’t have time, aren’t convenient, newspapers are biased and people don’t like to read, they aren’t interested

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What are the national dailies?

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WSJ, USA Today

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Large metropolitan dailies

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(5 times and week)

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What other newspaper are there?

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Suburban and small-town dailies, weeklies and semi-weeklies

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Today’s trends?

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firewall is dead-or close to dying
big breakdown between editorial, advertising.
Little competitions and chains

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What are the pressures with todays trends?

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ad sales and profit, 10 cents gained for ever $1 lost in ad revenue

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The Paywall

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some content for those who pay

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Internet age

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ad revenue go online, young readers prefer online, going local and searchable news

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Why Newspapers?

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a super bowl everyday
good demographic
most trusted, more credible and home advantage

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Hard vs. Soft News

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hard news- what you need to know to make democracy work

Soft news- what is fun to know

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What is always possible

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ads pay for things for newspapers

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