Week 8: Newspapers and Magazines

Ghost Newspapers

Devoid of much actual local news and often carrying only syndicated content from other newspaper

News Deserts

Communities without a regular, reliable news source

Rise of the printing press

Development of newspapers emerged in Europe with the __________

Magazine

Refers to collections of articles, stories, and advertisements that would be printed in non daily periodicals

Political and Commercial

What are the two general types of newspapers

Partisan Press

Pushed the strategy of the particular political group that subsidized the paper

Human Interest Stories

News accounts focsuing on daily trails and triumphs of the human condition

Wire services

Transmitted stories over telegraph lines, allowing publishers to print them the same day

General Interest Magazines

Covered a wide variety of topics aimed at a broad national audience

Yellow Journalism

Era in which papers carried exciting human-interest stories, crime news, large headlines, investigations, and more readable copy

Muckraking

Style of American magazine journalism that pressed for social reforms in long-form investigative reports and exposes of corruption in business and government

Investigative Journalism

News reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly in business and government

Photojournalism

The use of photos to document the rhythms of daily life

Pass-Along Readership

The total number of people who come into contact with a single copy of a magazine

Objective Journalism

Distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns

• Strives for neutral attitude toward issue or event

• Searches out competing points of view among sources

Inverted-Pyramid Style

Story form for packaging and presenting objective reporting

Interpretive Journalism

Aims to explain key issues or events and place them in a broader context

Literary Journalism

Adapts fictional techniques to nonfictional material and in-depth reporting

Alternative Press

Question mainstream political policies and conventional values

Citizen Journalism

Activist amateurs and concerned citizens, not professional journalist, who use the internet and social media to disseminate news and information

Feature Syndicates

Contract with newspapers to provide work from the nation’s best political writers, editorial cartoonists, comic strip artists, and self-help columnists

Branded Content

Paid Social media placements on platforms like Facebook and Instagram

Bookazines

Special edition single-topic magazines published under familiar consumer magazines

Newspaper Chain

A compay that owns several paper throughout the country