Baran: Newspapers Word Scramble

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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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