news paper “what if there were no newspapers?”

NEWS PAPER

“What if There were No

Newspapers?”

People would go to news on the T.V. for information and if they

have no T.V. well no news

Lola Anciana

Imagine getting up in the morning, and sitting for breakfast without a newspaper! The

morning tea would lose its flavour. From the bedroom you hear the voice of the

announcer over the radio telling you of the day's disaster. Just plain statements of facts, no details, no photographs, no editorials, no asides, no snide comments, no bouquets, no

brickbats. How dull it would be!

Civic Journalism

(sometimes referred to as

public journalism).

-Journalism has an obligation to public life – an obligation that goes beyond just

telling the news or unloading lots of facts. The way we do our journalism

affects the way public life goes.-“Interactive Journalism”-Papers are also trying civic journalism to do good things for the communities which they themselves are members.

CONVERGENCE WITH THE INTERNET

• Technology has been both ally and enemy to news paper. Now, online computer networks pose the greatest challenge to this medium.

• The internet and the World Wide Web provide readers with more information and with greater speed than the traditional newspaper.

• In 1999 only one online newspaper, USA Today, made the list of the most visiting sites. In mid-2004, eight of the top 20 news and information sites were affiliated with newspapers: Ganett Newspapers, Knight Ridder Digital, Nytimes.com, Tribune Newspapers, USA Today.com, Hearts Newspapers Digital, Washingtonpost.com and Advance Publications.

USA Today

Some of the more successful online newspaper

-Internet Public Library- Web links provide thousands of online newspaper in US.

-Some newspaper Web sites even encourage community publishing, that is, they provide their own linked sites such as, New Jersey’s Bergen Record’s containing pages built by local schools, clubs, and non-profit groups

• In October 2001, the New York Times began digital delivery daily, delivering the paper, as it looks in print, to home and office computers. Some papers that can be downloaded are Akron Beacon Journal etc.

• Technology serves both online and traditional newspapers in other ways.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of

online newspaper?

CHANGES IN NEWSPAPER READERSHIP

- The shift in tone of the modern newspaper is a direct result of another force that is altering the medium-audience relationship-changes in the nature of newspaper readership.

Percent seeking no news at all

Online and free computer papers might be two

solutions, but the fundamental question

remains: Should newspaper give these

readers what they should want or what they do

want?

Hard news. Stories that “help people to make intelligent decisions and/or keep up with important issues of the day”

Soft news. Sensational stories that do not serve the democratic function of journalism.

Interpreting Relative Placement of Stories

“Children born into newspaper-reading

families tend to keep up the tradition; those born

in non-newspaper families tend to become non-

readers”

Thank you for listening