Newspapers
Audience Segmentations
Increased Audience Control
Convergence
Multiple Platforms
Mobile Media
Social Media
User-Generated Content
C-Span program talks about how Bezos buying Washington Post brings together a digital native and newspaper industry like never before.
C-Span Program talks about how newspapers are converging more with the commerce route rather than being funded by advertisement.
News is changing since a person can get it through various platforms whether a blog, social media, online newspaper, etc. (C-Span).
C-Span Program talks about how the Internet was part of bankrupting newspaper companies and causing them to go online along with the hardcopies.
Paywalls for newspapers seem to spark controversy as to whether it is a successful tactic (C-Span).
Wealthy elites tend to be the ones buying out newspaper companies so they are being owned by fewer people (C-Span).
The future of newspapers and magazines is in journalists letting go of some of their prestige and allowing for common folk to be a part of the dialogue in a social way (Big Think--"The Future of Newspapers and Magazines").
There is a need for allowing human social interaction when it comes to news in some form of user-generation. This means the business model needs to change (Big Think--"The Future of Newspapers and Magazines").
There is a need for newspapers to be willing to change with the time and that might mean they will need to go completely online and no print (Think Big--"Is the Internet Killing the Newspaper?").
Lisa DeSisto: While the online platform may be a threat to journalism it is a tremendous opportunity for journalism.
Lisa DeSisto: journalism's chief role is to tell people's stories
Obituaries are a big way of doing this and social media has helped with sharing more of these stories through reposts, online condolencences, etc.
Lisa DeSisto: newspapers work to please audiences and so gives the audiences control as to what they want to see.
Lisa DeSisto: she believes both the paper and online are important parts of journalism and both should stick around.
Lisa DeSisto: Social media is a huge way that people access their newspaper since it gets higher circulation via the shares and likes.
The onion story couldn't have happened without social media.
Lisa DeSisto: Journalism has the ability to draw people together and converge from different backgrounds to relate to common humanity.
The textbook talks about how fewer people are reading hardcopies and instead are turning to the internet for their source of news.
Newspapers started out in two main styles (or platforms)--the Dutch and the German (the textbook).
At first the governments tightly controlled what was in the newspapers, but after the civil war in England in 1641 this changed because newspapers started covering more local affairs.
Areopagitica called out the government on its tight control of books and newspapers. As a result newspapers were set free from tight government regulation and given freedom of the press.
Zenger's verdict gave more freedom to the press and lead to more discussion on politics.
Arguments over the need for government regulation and freedom of the press led to the passing of the Sedition Act and then subsequent allowance of its lapse.
Free-press tends to be the trend in the U.S. today
Audience's desires for human-interest stories and police reports led to an increase in that content in The Sun eventually causing it to be the first known paper called the penny press.
This type of targeting mainstream audiences transformed the newspaper industry.
the introduction of T.V. and radio caused major competition for newspapers and divided audience attention.
Newspapers tend to pattern after either consensus journalism or conflict journalism
Niche Newspapers target particular ethnic, racial, or language groups.
Newspapers choose what to print and so act as gatekeepers to what information people get or do not get.
Steven Hoenisch, believes newspapers are less worried with pleasing their audiences and more concerned with pleasing their advertisers and stockholders.
Journalists determine not only what is told but how it is told
The internet changed the journalism world from being primarily focused on the written word to having big focuses on images and style.
The newspaper industry is larger dominated by a few major publications.
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
USA Today
Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post
Chicago Tribune
The younger generation is the main responsible party for the major shift from print to online for the news industry.
JOAs made a way for newspaper companies to share the cost of advertising, business, and circulation operations.
Online writing gives room for amateurs to enter the professional space of writing.
Beatbloggers are journalists who have capitalized on the social aspect of blogging and engage their readers by allowing them to be a part of the reporting process (textbook).