Newspapers Today Flashcards
What are six characteristics of newspapers today?
- Declining dailies
- Declining circulation
- Declining advertising
- Hyperlocal emphasis
- Social networking emphasis
- Multimedia package approach
Who are the four leading Newspaper chains? Who is the largest?
- Gannett (largest)
- McClatchy Tribune
- New York Times
- Hearst
What’s important to consider when asking who the largest newspaper is?
Is it just print or print + online?
- When did USA Today begin?
2. Who runs it?
- Began in 1982
2. Gannett
- What is an important characteristic of USA Today? 2. How did it change newspapers?
- Pricey. It lost money for 10 years
2. It was flashy and appealed to the younger generations due to bold color and short stories
What are some characteristics of alternative press?
- Usually politically driven
- typically publish less frequently
- different cultural groups
What are two examples of alternative press?
- Homeless newspaper. Its content was written by the the homeless and distributed by the homeless
- The Onion
- Who is part of the newspaper editorial staff?
- What is an editorial page?
- What is changing?
- Editors, beat reporters, GA reporters, copy editors
- Editorial page = opinions
- Old beat system is changing
Where do most papers get most of their money?
- Display advertising (main source of money)
- Classified advertising (example: Craiglist)
- Circulation (example: Subscriptions, rack sales)
Who bought the Washington Post?
Jeff Bezos (the inventor of Amazon)
- What do wire services do?
- What do they require?
- What are they?
- What three examples of wire services?
- They publish news stories and subscribing stations pull material
- They require subscriptions to publish
- Participatory system
- Associated Press, Gannett Wire Services, Reuters
How do magazines differ from newspapers?
- Published weekly or monthly
- Bigger picture stories (not up to the moment)
- Better paper quality
- Advertiser relationships (could write what advertisers want)
- Specific audiences
- Staff is usually freelancers
What are four types of magazines??
- Consumer magazines = Read for pleasure (National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Time, People, etc.)
- Trade magazines = overdrive (magazine for truckers)
- PR or corporate magazines = Virginia Tech Magazine
- Ezine = salon, slade, published only in electronic form
What is muckracking?
Digging for dirt
What was Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
- 1862-1931
2. African-American investigative reporter
Who were three writers on the Saturday Evening Post?
Edgar Allen Pow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the postal act of 1879?
Granted second-class mailing rates to magazines, giving them low cost distribution through the mail system
What changed during the 1940s-1950s?
Specialization with target audiences (fashion, woodworking, cooking, family, film, etc)
Why does Popular Science no longer allow comments on their webstories?
Trolls, spambots, misinformation
What are some controversies for magazines?
- Images = photoshop
- Advertising relationships = too much control over content
- Source relationships = big players have more influence
