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Baran: Newspapers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acta Diurna | Rome's Newspaper |
| Corantos | one-page news sheets about specific events; the newspapers we have today have their roots in 17th century Europe |
| Diurnals | regular, daily accounts of local news, true forerunner to our daily newspaper |
| Broadsheets | single-sheet announcements of accounts of events imported from England |
| What was the only newspaper published in Boston in 1721 without authority to do so? | Jame's Franklin's New-England Courant |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | made illegal writing, publishing, or printing "any false scandalous and malicious writing" about the president, congress, or the federal government |
| Penny Press? What was the first penny-press? | 1-cent newspaper; first= New York Sun (1833); wanted to attract large readers b/c of the cheapness (large readers draws in advertisers); turned millions of "regular people" into newspaper readers, made newspapers the people's medium |
| Wire Services | First, Sun, Herald, and Tribune pooled their efforts and shared expenses collecting news from foreign ships docking at city's harbor, news gathering organization (EX: Associated Press); had assignments of both foreign and domestic correspondents |
| Joseph Pulitzer's Yellow Journalism | populist approach to the news, audience= "common man"; had stories about sex, crime, and disaster news, giant headlines, heavy use of illustration and reliance on cartoons and color |
| Newspaper Chains | in response to competition from magazines and radio for advertising; newspapers in different cities across the country owned by a single company |
| Pass-along Readership | readers who did not originally purchase the paper |
| Zoned Editions | suburban or regional versions of papers |
| Why has there been a growth in ethic press? | 1) realized to be successful need to fragment audience 2) Hispanics= fastest-growing population 3) b/c newspaper is the most local of the mass media, nonnative speakers tend to identify closely with their immediate locales |
| Alternative Press | most commonly a weekly paper and available at no cost, offspring of the underground press |
| Dissident Press | picked up the "mantle of alternative", weeklies with a very local and very political orientation (EX: Clevelands' Urban Dialect) |
| Commuter Papers | free dailies for local commuters |
| Why do so many advertisers choose newspapers? | because of their reach, good demographics, and their local nature |
| Feature Syndicates | do not gather and distribute news, operate as clearing houses for the work of columnists, essayists, cartoonists, and other creative individuals |
| Pay Wall | papers rely on advertisers for online revenue, papers experimenting with making all or some of their content available only to those visitors willing to pay |
| Integrated Audience Reach | should replace circulation, the total number of readers of the print edition plus those unduplicated Wed readers who access the paper only online |
| Soft News | sensation stories that do not serve the democratic function of journalism |
| Hard News | stories that help citizens to make intelligent decisions and keep up with important issues of the day |
| Agenda Setting | the way newspapers and other media influence not only what we think, but what we think about |
| First Amendment | Freedom of Press |
| The number of daily newspapers is... | in decline, few cities with competing chains; chain ownership has become common |
| Conglomeration and Newspapers | fueling hypercommercialism, erosion of firewall between the businesses and editorial sides of newspapers, and the loss of the newspapers traditional journalistic mission |
| What is happening the Newspapers audience? | They are getting older, as young people abandon the paper for the Net or for no news at all |
| Important Media Literacy Skill | interpreting the relative placement of stories in the newspaper |
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