...Internet - The death of Newspaper? Think about it you have an ePaper with internet facility then what will you do to know about the latest situation of the country? You will simply logon to or any online news site. Yes. You are using the technology as a weapon to destroy the Newspaper. Yes. This is Internet which is causing the death of Newspaper. If you have the internet facility on your home then you will think that why am I wasting my time. I can read the newspaper on the Internet. Then maybe you will say good bye to your Newspaper Hawker. Daily newspapers lost 1.2 million readers and online newspaper readership grew to 56 million. How many of you want to go abroad for study? Please raise your hands. Well. What will you do to keep in touch with your country when you will be in abroad? I can say with guarantee that you will logon to any Newspaper site. Because it is impossible to send you a Newspaper regularly from Pakistan to Australia or UK. When I was preparing this speech, I required some data from the Newspaper. But it was hard for me to collect old issues of Newspapers and search data about an uncommon topic like this. But Thanks God that now I have the internet ready for me. You know, to be honest, I had got unlimited information by only One CLICK. Unbelievable? No, you have to believe it if you visit Google News or Yahoo News. So, if I have this kind of option then why will I go to waste my time and dirt my hands by touching old Newspapers? Today...
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...head: THE RISE OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM COLLAPSE OF PRINT MEDIA 1 The Democratization of Journalism Alan B Egge University of Maryland University College The internet has fundamentally changed how news is distributed by democratizing the creation and consumption of news. It has allowed news to be published and read by anybody at little to no cost. Print media has struggled to hold their own against a ubiquitous and often free competitor. Advertising revenue for the ten largest newspaper companies peaked at $48.7 Billion in 2000 and has since plummeted to $23.9 Billion in 2012. The 2012 figure includes revenue from digital versions of the papers but this adaptation has not stymied the decline. On the surface, these numbers suggest that Neil Postman's claim in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that America was fulfilling Aldous Huxley's vision of a world where, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As [Huxley] saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think.” (xix) Newspapers have historically been the most important technology to make one think so is does their decline spell our decline into an isolated, apathetic dystopia? To the contrary, I believe the collapse of the newspaper and the rise of internet journalism is creating a better informed and more socially aware society. Digital media is doing precisely the opposite of what Huxley, Postman and much of the mainstream...
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...Critical Thinking Questions: Module 7 Chapter 3 Q:Select a recent mass media technology, for example, the iPad, and explain what you think its future will hold as it relates to the stages of technological innovation. A: The future seems very bright for devices such as the iPad and iPhones, and other Smartphone based devices. As the years continue to change so will the needs of the consumers of these technological devices, it is only a matter of time before we are able to use a holographic form of an iPad or iPhone etc. These devices meet the needs of so many people that the growing rate of what is desired on the newest device is hard to keep up with. The need to produce such devices at a fast rate before their competitors may stir up a few technological glitches as the past has deteremined from older devices. My fear is that these technology companies are going to start to cut corners more often than they should just to get the product out to the consumer. In a way the future of an iPad and iPhone will always be a positive once since it is a fairly popular brand all around the world. Perhaps the next best thing that they are able to figure out will to project movies from the phone or work on a holographic keyboard that works on a flat surface. Either of these innovations would inhance the sales of this product, but only if the eagerness to get this product out before their competitors does not affect the actual product. As mentioned before history has shown that the rush...
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... 21 April 2010 1 I. Introduction Last year, 53% of adults (or 71% of internet users) in the United States received their news online than by buying a newspaper or magazine.1 Things have changed quite dramatically since 748 AD (the first record of a newspaper in Beijing, China). From Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1451 to dwindling circulation in 2010, the newspaper industry has experienced both impressive growth and steady decline. In the 1700s, market factors such as rising literacy and the development of postal services galvanized the distribution of newspapers. Growth continued in the 1800s with the rise of the middle class. In the early 1900s (i.e. before the advent of television), substantial adverting revenue allowed newspapers to become enormously profitable. However, in the late 1900s and early 2000s, the tides...
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...Case 1 USA Today: Innovation in an Evolving Industry* Synopsis: As the entire newspaper industry sits on the brink of collapse, Gannett and USA Today work to avoid disaster and transform the nation’s most read newspaper into tomorrow’s best resource for news and information. This case reviews the history of USA Today, including its continued use of innovation to stay on top of the technological and sociocultural shifts that are rapidly changing the newspaper industry. In the face of continual competition across a variety of media sources, the future of USA Today depends on its ability to continually push the envelope of innovation and offer value-added, proprietary content to ensure continued differentiation and the future of the USA Today brand. Themes: Product strategy, innovation, target marketing, distribution strategy, changing technology, changing sociocultural patterns, customer relationships, competition, differentiation, strategic focus, SWOT analysis Case Summary USA Today is the most successful and highly visible newspaper that students have seen and read on a national basis. The case provides an overview of Gannett's strategic marketing approach to launching and growing this unique newspaper. When USA Today debuted in 1982, it achieved rapid success due to its innovative format. No other media source had considered a national newspaper written in shorter pieces than a traditional paper and sprinkled with eye-catching, colorful photos, graphs, and charts. Designed...
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...report on the latest matches score between our favorite football teams, weather forecast, information on election campaigns, or news on the recent death of a well-known celebrity, we always come back for more. Nevertheless, from the traditional role of messengers to recent digital age, the principle of news still remains the same;- providing the masses with the latest and current events of today’s world, be it through printed newspaper, broadcast, internet or oral messaging (word-of-mouth). Spreading news is without doubt one of the oldest human activities ever exist. Before the invention of newspaper in the early age, authorities appointed third-party messengers to bring word, spreading news and updated information. Some of these messengers traveled nearly thousand miles to deliver the news to the receivers. Most of the times, there were related to diplomatic, economic and political issues. After a well-formed country was established, only then the people started to exchange updated news among them in a larger scale than before. Before writing became a common skill to master, human beings spread news by word of mouth on crossroads, at alleys or markets. The messengers came back from battlefields to their homeland only to report on victories or defeats to the commoners. Other than that, people also hired criers to announce births, deaths, marriages and divorces. The masses relied on messengers for the latest news and information on current events that happened during that period...
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...Case 1 USA Today: Innovation in an Evolving Industry* Synopsis: As the entire newspaper industry sits on the brink of collapse, Gannett and USA Today work to avoid disaster and transform the nation’s most read newspaper into tomorrow’s best resource for news and information. This case reviews the history of USA Today, including its continued use of innovation to stay on top of the technological and sociocultural shifts that are rapidly changing the newspaper industry. In the face of continual competition across a variety of media sources, the future of USA Today depends on its ability to continually push the envelope of innovation and offer value-added, proprietary content to ensure continued differentiation and the future of the USA Today brand. Themes: Product strategy, innovation, target marketing, distribution strategy, changing technology, changing sociocultural patterns, customer relationships, competition, differentiation, strategic focus, SWOT analysis Case Summary USA Today is the most successful and highly visible newspaper that students have seen and read on a national basis. The case provides an overview of Gannett's strategic marketing approach to launching and growing this unique newspaper. When USA Today debuted in 1982, it achieved rapid success due to its innovative format. No other media source had considered a national newspaper written in shorter pieces than a traditional paper and sprinkled with eye-catching, colorful photos, graphs, and charts. Designed...
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...The Effect of the Internet on the Newspaper industry’s Revenues Emily Ford University of Maryland University College The Effect of the internet on The Newspaper Industry’s Revenues The newspaper industry is currently in the midst of a financial crisis due to the increased competition from news outlets on the internet and the changes in how the public chooses to access information. In 2011 seven major American newspapers declared bankruptcy. Of the roughly 1400 newspapers in the nation approximately half will go out of business in the next decade. Between the years 2001 and 2008 average print circulation went down by 13.5%. Over 80% of newspaper revenues are generated from their advertisement sales, however, among newspapers with an ancillary websites, they average less than 10% of these revenues from their web-based content (Kirchhoff, pp. 2-4). The struggle facing the newsprint media is their inability to make a profitable transition to web-based platforms. This paper will explore many of the challenges involved in making that transition as well as offer up possible strategies that the print media could utilize in the future. It is imperative that the content follow in line with what the medium demands, in order to flourish in the new frontier of distributing the news (Postman, p. 88). The newspaper industry as a whole has been slow to embrace the new internet based technology. They have yet to be successful in walking the line between traditional print content and...
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...quote. Retrieved May 12, 2009, from http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_ hoaxer DUBLIN - When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked. The sociology major's made-up quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia quickly caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it, but not quickly enough to keep some journalists from cutting and pasting it first. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets in an e-mail and the corrections began. "I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. "I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up...
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...Public Perceptions of Science Nowadays media is having a huge influence on the public perception. Every new information is taken by different types of media and is transmitted to the public in very different ways. There are different sources of media so there are many ways of interpreting new information depending on the media format, the audience, who is founding that media source and also what outcome they want to obtain from the public. Newspaper- is an old way to get your information; its target audience are people above the age of 18. In the newspaper the level of accuracy is not as high because the news are mostly changed by the journalist depending on what the government wants to communicate to the public because they are funding them. The language use is basic so the news can be understood by everyone. * Scare stories- in the newspaper we can find stories that are meant to have a bad influence on the public because they are talking about the rapid spread of the viruses like Ebola. They are mostly there to exploit the public fears because those are also controlled by the government. * Specialist journals- give reports about a specific subject to the public. In here you can find scientific articles of the week. Its target audience are the scientists and also the public. They are written by the people with some scientific knowledge and that’s why the language used is more scientific; they also give more details about the cases. Their purpose is to inform the audience...
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...Rebuttal of “Teen's life and death unfolds on Twitter” University of Phoenix This is written in rebuttal of Jaime Butow’s article in the Bakersfield Californian on October 29, 2012. The article is about the social media postings of Breana Webb and her friends over the weekend leading to her death at the hands of a drunk driver early on Monday morning. This article will analyze the reliability, credibility, and validity of the data used by Ms. Butow. It will also illustrate the logical fallacies in Ms. Butow’s argument. First we will analyze the author’s reliability and validity of data. In this instance they can be judged together. The data used and quoted by Ms. Butow is taken directly from Ms. Webb’s Twitter account and other social media pages. Also, Ms. Butow’s data comes from Ms. Webb’s Twitter account “followers”, or people who follow her posts. These followers are typically friends with the account holder. Ms. Butow’s reliability of data is impeccable with some points because it was written by Ms. Webb. However, posts made on Twitter by other people began to lose absolute reliability because it begins to become here say. The validity of the data holds true for all the same reasons as its reliability (Butow, 2012). Next we will analyze Ms. Butow’s credibility. This becomes a difficulty situation as her story was not written directly about the DUI and its resulting accident, but rather the online legacy that a person leaves behind. The first point to...
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...interview scripts with the Principal or any document which is relevant. 2. Bribery The problem of bribery exist and there has been attempt to curb it since the Melaka Sultanate period. Why is bribery an important issue? Write a report on the causes of this unethical conduct and how such problem can be resolved in our country, Malaysia. 3. HIV /AIDS As we are aware of, until now there is no cure for HIV infections and AIDS patients have to face death. Write a report on AIDS and explain the importance of protecting and not discriminating HIV/AIDS patients in our society. 4. Internet Internet misuse may cause harm and pollutes the mental growth of teenagers. Conduct a simple research on the disadvantages of internet for example addiction to social networking websites and the effect of this to users. 5. Bully issues Bullying has taken place for centuries where the stronger abuse the weaker. Write a report on the importance of overcoming bullying in schools. You may support your report with examples. (From newspaper cuttings, magazines, journals etc) 6. Family Institution In western countries, sending aged parents to retirement homes has become a trend. Discuss the issues of sending aged parents to the retirement homes / old folks home. In your report, you may suggest several alternatives in caring for aged parents instead of sending them to the old folks home. 7. Types of Moral Values Moral values are derived from different sources...
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...because we need to learn how to not be dependent on technology like it used to be. Technology does not have to be everything to us; it just needs to help us along the way. Today technology has essentially taken over; you can find anything you need for your everyday routine. From grocery stores, social networking, email, games, stocks and also the newspaper. In an article by Clay Shirky called “Traditional Newspapers are Becoming Extinct” states that “the problem newspapers face isn't that they didn't see the internet coming”(opposing viewpoints). Newspapers used to be such a big thing but now that the internet has arrived things like that are slowly disappearing. The world of technology is basically telling everybody that to get these things they need to have a piece of technology like an iPad, iPhone, laptop, or a regular desktop computer to just get these things that used to be delivered on their front door step. I can understand why the older generation can’t handle this type of technology because they don’t know anything about it, they are so used to the way they grew up that’s all they know, just like how the internet and technology is all we know. For my own personal experience I am unfortunately talking about myself. I am...
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...Media History Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.1.6 1.1.7 1.1.8 1.1.9 Issues with definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forms of mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Professions involving mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Influence and sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ethical issues and criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See also . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 2 6 6 7 8 10 10 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 12 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 19 20 21 21 21 1.1.10 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.11 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.12 Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.13 External links . . . . . . . . ....
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...be my duty to report the news that would have the greatest impact on my community and its residents. The death of a celebrity will be news worthy, entertaining, and bring in ratings but would not affect my community like the closing of a city park three days a week would. The primary role of the media is to accurately report on the issues that directly impact its viewers and communities. The death of a celebrity does not have much staying power beyond its entertainment value and furthermore has no direct effect on the community or its residents. There would be a larger impact on the local community by covering the story of the local park closing. Residents and families would be impacted the most by a city park closing and having their opinions and views would be vital to the coverage of the story. City council members would also be interviewed about the budgetary issues and the reasoning for this decision to further inform viewers. The social responsibility of news media is to present unbiased coverage of issues that affect the public; however, these days it seems that there is really no social responsibility of the news media as most stations are for profit businesses owned by larger media corporations. The responsibility it seems these days is to the company’s shareholders. There are so many ways that consumers get their news now, and it is likely that a celebrity’s death would be a nationwide event but not a lasting story that would directly affect local communities. As a member...
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