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Andrew VanNess

Acta Diurna - 0 views

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    The earliest written news is known as the Acta Diurna. This form of news, which was usually either carved into stone or metal, was developed in Ancient Rome. Julius Caesar was responsible for allowing it to become available to the public.
Savanna Germain

Local news crisis: why newspapers remain so important to the public - 0 views

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    This article talks about why the newspaper industry is important. It also talks about the reasons why the newspaper is valuable.
Jenna Peterfeso

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon - Washington Post - 1 views

  • Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated publications to The Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and other businesses.
  • The rise of the Internet and the epochal change from print to digital technology have created a massive wave of competition for traditional news companies, scattering readers and advertisers across a radically altered news and information landscape and triggering mergers, bankruptcies and consolidation among the owners of print and broadcasting properties.
  • will take the company private, meaning he will not have to report quarterly earnings to shareholders or be subjected to investors’ demands for ever-rising profits,
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  • As such, he will be able to experiment with the paper without the pressure of showing an immediate return on any investment
  • Indeed, Bezos’s history of patient investment and long-term strategic thinking made him an attractive buyer, Weymouth said.
  • “I don’t want to imply that I have a worked-out plan,” he said. “This will be uncharted terrain, and it will require experimentation.”
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    Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy The Washington post for $250 million cash. Includes the Grahm family's feelings toward the deal and what made Bezo's an attractive buyer.
Andrew VanNess

Online Video Pioneer: News Sites Will Bring Video Out from Paywalls - 0 views

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    This article gives us a possible outlook on the future of online newspaper websites. Video journalism is an emerging trend, and it provides greater economical benefits from its advertisements than regular web based ads. This can help move some forms of online news from paywalls to being "free to the public", since they make up for profits with advertisements.
Andrew VanNess

Dynamic Competition in the Newspaper Industry - 1 views

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    This website talks about the competition newspapers have been facing throughout history. It also discusses todays challenges the newspaper industry is facing.
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    This is a TRUSTED SOURCE (The U.S. Department of Justice) describing the challenges that the newspaper industry has faced throughout history, such as the invention of radio and television.
Jered Wilcox

A shield law is necessary to protect U.S. journalists - 0 views

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    SOME GOVERNMENT secrets should remain under wraps. Many others are kept out of view for poor reasons, including extreme caution, rote classification habits and a lack of recognition that withholding information from the public should be an extraordinary practice.
Jenna Peterfeso

Newspaper Types and Formats - 0 views

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  • Aside from being particular print formats, some formats seem to have been used by newspapers with particular kinds of content, leading to the formats being associated with the seriousness of the publication.
  • Broadsheets are generally thought to be the purview of high-quality journalism,
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  • UK Newspapers on a News Stand There are a wide number of newspaper types and formats, but three in particular tend to be used above all other in the UK. These are broadsheet, Berliner and tabloid.
  • The Berliner format fits between broadsheets and tabloids. Without any particular association with the quality of news reporting in the format, some broadsheet newspapers in the UK have looked to the Berliner format as a happy medium that allows for the portability of a tabloid format newspaper without the negative connotations.
  • The Tabloid format is the smallest newspaper format and also the one with the reputation for the worst journalism.
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    Different newspaper types and formats, including broadsheets, berliner format, tabloids, etc. 
Jered Wilcox

The Next Phase of Citizen Journalism - 0 views

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    Founded by New York University graduate Phil Groman (who now joins NBC's digital team), theyet-to-launch web service Stringwire lets users stream content from phones. Per the official release from NBC, Stringwire was created as a service for news organizations to request video from a network of verified contributors with connected mobile devices capable of streaming video across the globe. The service is part of NBC News' strategy to create different methods of eyewitness accounts that can be immediately connected to the newsroom and distributed to the public.
Andrew VanNess

Early American Newspapering - 0 views

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    This article is about the history of newspapers in early American times. It has a few pictures of these newspapers, one of which is Public Occurences, Both Foreign and Domestick.
Melinda Snell

Is Rupert Murdoch's iPad-Only Newspaper the Future of Journalism? - 0 views

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    Apple and News Corp are reportedly set to launch The Daily, the first iPad-only news publication. Can Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs usher journalism into a new digital age?
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