JCA Fall 2013 Mass Comm-Newspaper

This is an article describing the competition between the newspaper and radio industries in current times. Basically, the author believes that newspaper doesn't stand a chance with other industries with the rise of the internet and the digital era.

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.

This is just another picture of a journalist. I thought it could be useful.

brief summary about digitial printing: short print runs, digital printing as a distribution concept and hybrid printing.

brief summary of the history of the classified ads and where they are going today

Video from 2009 from ted talks by Jacek Utko. Designed newspapers over in Germany and several other places and saw a surprising increase in the number of reader just by simply changing the newspaper's design.

Jacek Utko talks about how design may save the newspapers. 6 minute video

how and why the newspaper started to grow, thanks to the new technologies of the industrial revolution

How a newspaper works. Reporter, editor, advertising, etc

What does a newspaper reporter do?

Data on how young adults are currently accessing news. 

This is a detailed article describing the history of news. Key parts include the development and importance of the steam press during the industrial revolution.

This is a very high quality picture of Publick Occurences, the first newspaper to be published in America.

This is an article with the history of the moveable type and how it was invented in China by Bi Sheng. Along with this is a nice picture of the ancient moveable pieces that we could use in our wiki.

A timeline of the history of newspapers, including a lot of the first published newspapers across the globe.

With the invention of the telegraph, radio and television, print newspapers have faced challenges over the decades, yet publishers have always adapted and persevered. However, the Internet is proving to be a far more dangerous foe to the traditional newspaper model. Faced with such an adversary, small and large newspapers alike may have no choice but to abandon their traditional methods for a more innovative approach.

A 55 minute video about the history of newspapers described by the history channel. This video mainly focuses on the history within the United States and how newspapers dealt with major events throughout history, such as the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

A high quality picture that can be used in our wiki.

What do newspaper companies like The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO ) , New York Times (NYSE: NYT ) and Gannett (NYSE: GCI ) have in common? Although they are said to be in a dying industry, so far this year all of them have beaten the Standard & Poor's 500 index performance by a wide margin. What is behind the return of newspaper stocks?

On September 25, 1690-that's 323 years ago this week-America's first newspaper Publick Occurences Both Forreign and Domestick was published in Boston. It didn't go very well.