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Savanna Germain

Accepting the Challenge: Using the Web to Help Newspapers Survive - 0 views

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    This site talks about how the newspaper will need to use the internet ant the web to survive. They have to figure out a way to keep readers interested. They also talk about people entering the newspaper industry who grew up with the internet. By hiring these people the industry will have a greater chance of survival.
Jenna Peterfeso

Technology Industry Extends a Hand to Struggling Print Media - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the tycoons who have led the digital revolution are giving traditional print outlets a hand.
  • Call it a sense of obligation. Or responsibility. Or maybe there is even a twinge of guilt. Helping print journalism adapt to a changed era is becoming a cause du jour among the technology elite.
  • Google, which has been criticized for profiting from news content created by others, began financing journalism fellowships for eight people this year.
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  • are supporting the press because they value it,
  • The founder of Craigslist, the free listing service that helped ruin newspapers’ classified advertising, helped finance a book on ethics for journalists.
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  • Many critics of the newspaper industry say its predicament is its own fault for allowing upstarts like Craigslist to outflank it with better methods for advertising automobiles, rental apartments and other merchandise.
  • Since then, the search giant has been cozying up to journalists in a growing variety of ways, financing reports on the impact of the Internet on journalism, sponsoring journalism conferences and donating to press advocacy groups.
  • But Esther Wojcicki, a teacher of high school journalism for several decades in Palo Alto, Calif., and the mother-in-law of Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, said the motivations of the tech people supporting the press, many of whom she has spoken to, were more sincere.
Savanna Germain

The Invention of the Printing Press - PsPrint.com - 0 views

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    This is a website that talks about the invention of the printing press. It gives some good information about life before the printing press as well. I think this is a good website to help us with the technology portion.
Samantha VanTassel

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/educator/modules/gutenberg/books/printing/ - 0 views

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    This website is really helpful because it walks you through the many inventions of the printing press. It's basically a timeline of all the different types of printing systems that were invented.
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    The history of the printing press and the machines that helped the industry
Savanna Germain

Newspapers Can Finally Burn The Paper, Leaving Only News - Forbes - 0 views

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    Talks about what the problem is newspapers are facing. Also talks about what the newspaper is like today and argues that amozon and Jeff Bezos is helping the newspapers.
Samantha VanTassel

The history of newspapers - 0 views

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    Gives lots and lots of great information(including some vocab) about how and why newspapers are where they are today and the people who helped make it what it is.
Samantha VanTassel

Partisan Press - 0 views

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    This gives us a very spread out history of the Partisan Press that I think will help with the project. Even gives information on Pulitzer and Hurst, the Penny Press and more
Melinda Snell

Charts: Why the newspaper industry collapsed - 0 views

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    Helpful charts and information regarding the present and future of the newspaper industry. Comparing newspapers to different things like netflix, google, apple, etc.
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.
Melinda Snell

Wikipedia- Newspaper Defenition - 0 views

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    Everything about newspapers, from the defenition to the history and its impact. Yes, it is from wikipedia, but theres alot of helpful and useful information in this page.
Andrew VanNess

Acta Diurna Picture - 0 views

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    An example of a stone engraving, similar to what the Acta Diurna could have looked like. This would be a great way to help visualize what was placed around Rome during Julius Caesars reign.
Andrew VanNess

Writing from the Top Down: Pros and Cons of the Inverted Pyramid - 0 views

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    This is an article about why the inverted pyramid style of organization is controversial in journalism today. This is a helpful article for understanding how this style of writing developed over the years, and how it is now considered outdated.
Samantha VanTassel

why we must shift our attention from save newspapers to save society - 0 views

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    what the newspaper is doing to help increase revenue and how they are partnering with online newspapers
Andrew VanNess

Picture of a Feature Syndicate - 1 views

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    This is a picture of a newspaper crossword puzzle, an example of a feature syndicate. I think this will help the class understand what a feature syndicate is exactly and how it promotes newspaper business.
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