The news industry Flashcards
(21 cards)
What role do Newpapers play in the American news landscape today?
- Remain a critical part of the American news industry providing IN DEPTH journalism
When did newspaper decline begin and why?
- The decline started mid 2000 due to the rise of digital media
- Can access shit for free especially news
How has the newspaper industry changed since its dire state in 2019?
- Paywalls and subscriptions
- digital expansion
- Collabs with digital platforms
How has paywalls and subscriptions added to the change of newspapers
- Many newspapers like the new York time introduced digital subscription models in order to generate money
How has digital expansion added to the change of newspapers?
- Traditional newspapers started to focus with on online content, etc.
How has collaboration with digital platforms led to the change of newspaper?
- newspapers collaborated with other digital platforms in order to widen the audience
What is a newspaper
- a printed publication produced on a regular schedule DAILY.
- Distributed in multiple copies
Did newspapers exist before the printing press?
- nahhh
-information was spread through handwritten monuments
Why weren’t newspapers produced in England during the 1600s
- monarchs feared newspapers because they could mix political business with news influencing the public
Did the modern newspaper emerge suddenly due to a single invention?
- no it was influenced by Tech advancments
- social changes
- legal developments
How did tech advancements help the newspaper emerge?
- Improvements in printing presses made newspapers cheaper and easier to produce
How did legal development help to emerge the newspaper?
- Changes in the press of freedom laws; allows for independent freedom
How did social changes help with the newspaper emerge
- increasing literacy created, a wider audience for newspapers
What was the role of sensationalism in mass newspapers?
- to attract huge audiences, the newspapers focused on sensationalist stories, crime, scandals, and drama, bold headlines
- aka yellow journalism
What was tthe rivalry between Pultizer and Hearst?
- big ass newspapers fight
- competed fiercely with bold headlines, comics , and crime
What exactly was yellow journalism
- over the top reporting than can be misleading and not true
- came from the term yellow kid a comic strip
How did ass circulation newspapers develop in the late 19th century
- tech advancments: printing press
- ubranization & literacy: wider audience
- Advertising revnue: after civil war, news paperes relied heavily on advertising,
What key changes defined the “modern” look of news papers?
- Headlines across columns
- Inverted pyrimid strucutre
- Orginizational
- Departments and beats
- Introduction of images
What is the inverted pyrimid structure
- start with important information and then supporting details
- like a hook
What is departments and beats?
- News paper niggas were put in departments
- those reporters were assigned beats, meaning they covered a specific topic or location.
ex; a city hall beat would always cover local government
