The promising future of newspaper
In the wave of information explosion appeared in 90’ last century, the channels to obtain information among people have apparently been diversified due to the rise of new media outlets through the medium of the Internet. Although some advantage of newspaper has been overshadowed by the excellent performance of new media, newspaper is actively adapting to social and economic transformation based on maintaining its existing advantages. For this reason, the essay will describe newspapers’ prospects and explore whether newspaper have been outdated in the globalised era.
The fact that people tend to choose new media to acquire useful and valuable information rather than mere newspaper is largely due to the
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Instead of mere boring character and simple page outline, modern newspaper pays more attention on colorful pictures and illustrative graphics, based on modern typesetting techniques. (Bob Franklin, 2008, p.637) In addition, the appearance of tabloid formats and compact editions are increasingly popular among young readers, women and commuters, because the most striking feature of these types of newspaper is the increased use of telegraphy or a colorful graphic in order to attract their readers. Therefore, for modern people, reading these types of newspaper is an effective and well-understood way to obtain information and may be popular among them for a relatively long time.
In order to gain predominance in the fury market competition and win readers, traditional newspapers have made great efforts to design its contents published and meet the demand of their target audiences. For example, newspapers tend to focus on a specific theme, called “personalized news” such as finance, entertainment, education as well as all fields readers are interested in.( Martin Conboy & John Steel, 2008) In this way, the
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Even though USA Today is a national newspaper, it is written in shorter piece and sprinkled with eye catching, colorful photos, graphs, and charts designed to address the needs of a sound-byte generation, which are never consider by any other media source and it makes the USA Today’s content refreshing and more engaging than other papers. Because of this the USA Today’s circulation grew rapidly from roughly 350,000 in 1982 to approximately 5.9 million daily print and online readers today. When comparing USA Today with other competitors like the Wall Street Journal, which has 2.12 million subscriptions and the New York Times, which has 1.58 million subscriptions, the USA Today remains the number one print newspaper and USAToday.com, is the internet’s top sites for news and
The scientific advertising pioneered by Rubicam and Gallup revealed many obvious traits about the readers of newspapers. Readers would pay more attention to the comic section of the newspaper showing the simplicity of the consumer (Sivulka, 2012). Polls conducted by Gallup showed that men preferred to read the sports
In the article by Tom Engelhardt, an author tells about journalism during his childhood and how is it different from now. When his was young, New York had 10 major papers like The Daily News, The Daily Mirror, The Herald Tribune and a few magazines: Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Look and etc. Then he thought, that this is the golden era of journalism. All of these papers run the world, people got news from it and it was hard to imagine life without it. But what do we have now? Thousands of papers and magazines appear in our lives. We have a chose what to read today. But these papers are still just papers. We read someone's ideas and thoughts. The main bursting happened when we god online sources, «With the rise of the Internet, we're no
Comparing two newspaper articles, one from a tabloid and one from a broadsheet will convey the different techniques that tabloids and broadsheets use to present stories. Media in general, aim to inform and interest the audience which consist of many different types. Diverse emotions and ideas are created by the media; foremost tabloids. Tabloids are papers like ‘The Sun’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘The Express’ and ‘The Star’. In contrast to these are broadsheets like ‘The Times’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’. Broadsheets are often known as the ‘quality press’ being more informing and formal in the manner they convey information and news stories.
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The newspaper industry is undergoing a radical change in three primary areas caused by technology. First, the underlying two-sided business model is changing. With the Advent of internet, news content is easily and freely available from various sources but lacks quality journalism and credibility. Revenues from online advertising are not large enough to compensate for decline in revenues from print advertising & subscription. Newspaper industry is experiencing new realm of new content delivery and in process of understanding and establishing sustainable sources and
USA Today is a well-known newspaper company who dominates print news in the United States. Currently reaching nearly three million readers, USA Today has climbed their way to the top by evaluating and consistently re-evaluating their strategies to maintain and grow their consumer base, which consists of businessmen, professionals, and politicians (About USA Today). One of their greatest strengths is the wide range of their distribution. USA Today distributes newspapers in all fifty of the United States as well as parts of Canada and the United Kingdom (About USA Today). Their content is styled in an easy to read and understand way, making it more desirable to their readership versus other competitors’ newspapers. The company has established a well-recognized design for their newspaper, making it stand out among its competitors. USA Today is a “go-to” choice for consumers who daily read the newspaper.
After interviewing Joe, I decided to interview a student that has visited three times the Counseling Center. My interviewee’s name is Maryam Mirzaei. She is 26 years old and identifies as Persian. Maryam was born in Iran and is about to transfer to California State University, Northridge. I asked her what is her definition of culture, has she ever felt excluded based on her culture or ethnic background, what she wishes people knew about her, and how has she seen Pierce incorporate diversity on campus. Maryam stated her cultural background is her way of living. Because of her Persian roots, she celebrates a lot of Persian holidays. They remind her who she is and where her ethnic values come from. She feels comfortable knowing that in a lot of
I will begin by explaining five factors from our reading from the textbook and from our class discussions that interfere with Americans’ access to news. I will explain what each factor is and then I will explain its impact on the consumption of news. Firstly, I will show how the decline of printed press affects the quality of the investigative reporting of newspapers. Then, I will show how soft news impedes on Americans’ ability to gain factual information. Next, I will talk about
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