JCA Fall 2013 Mass Comm-Newspaper

Television and newspapers seem to have little in common. The business of flickering screens is thriving while newspapers are shrinking. So Mr Darcey, who took charge in January, is pushing his titles, including the Sun, a populist tabloid, and the Times, a higher-brow paper, to learn lessons from his former industry.

If the digital revolution has done nothing else, it has exposed the extent to which American newspapers have relied on their quasi-monopolistic control over local advertising markets to fund news operations. CW Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky, in their valuable report last year, called it a "subsidy," and that's a provocative way to put it.

Has this newspaper changed in your lifetime? Yes, it has. It's changed in the last year alone. It's evolved many times in its 146-year history, and it will continue to do so as it reflects the makeup of our community. The mere fact The News-Review has been in existence for 146 years and remains a daily habit for 32,000 readers ought to make you skeptical of reports that say newspapers are dying.

Four years ago, in preparation for the launch of Apple's iPad, Canada's La Presse newspaper started a $40 million investment in building an app - which is free to access to all readers.

Thirty-one people in multiple departments were laid off. The newspaper's new owner has said the goal is less redundancy and better local news coverage.

Caroline Little, chief executive of the Newspaper Association of America, an organization serving as liaison between a coalition of media outlets and Congressional staffs crafting a federal media shield law, praised Thursday's passing in the the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13-5.

Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post on Tuesday, officially ending 80 years of local control of the newspaper by the Graham family.

On Tuesday, most Oregonian subscribers will not find newspapers on their doorsteps. Oct. 1 brings what the Oregonian Media Group calls a "new era of digital journalism."

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he sees a future in which newspapers are like horses - a luxury item for a small group of people, not a mainstream transportation method - but his analogy is both right and wrong.

After nearly 280 years in print, the world's oldest continuously published newspaper is stopping the presses in favor of a digital presence. Lloyd's List, which was founded in 1734 as a notice posted to a London coffee shop's wall, announced Wednesday it will cease its print edition in December. The newspaper is widely regarded as the leading source of news and analysis for the global shipping market. The newspaper's management cited declining interest in the print edition as the impetus behind the move. A recent survey of Lloyd's List readers found that less than 2 percent relied solely on the print edition for access to the newspaper's content.

The chief economist at Google , Hal Varian, has given an interesting little speech looking into the economics of the newspaper industry. No, they're not entirely doomed, as some think, but they do need some changes. Most importantly, it would be good if we all read them for a little longer while at work each day. The general points made are all entirely reasonable: most of us who have been reading about this subject will know many of them already. Newspaper circulation has been in decline for decades, it's not just the internet. News was never what made the money, it was the advertising in the other parts of the paper that did. The battle is really about, whether online or offline, gaining access to some fragment of our attention span. Gain that and the industry can still be profitable and so on. All good points. But the two that were new to me

After letting go of its entire photo staff Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times plans to begin mandatory training on "iPhone photography basics." Media writer Robert Feder referred to the training in a Facebook post, and quotes a memo from Editor Craig Newman: "In the coming days and weeks, we'll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need."

The newspaper/e-edition is divided into a variety of different sections such as Local, Sports, Business, Living, Weather, etc. Within each section, readers see different headlines, photographs, artwork and stories on each page. The Media In Education (MIE) program has created a number of activities which can be used to encourage students to see more than just the words and photographs. Instead, they can take it a step further and challenge their minds to further develop what they see and read. The following MIE ideas offer ways for students of all ages to learn with newspaper projects that are fun and creative.

One of the saddest casualties of the digital age is the physical newspaper. For me, one of the saddest parts of that larger loss is the likely end of the age of comic strips.

another collection of funny newspaper headlines good for adding some humor to our pbworks page

these are funny headline i was thinking that would be good to liven up our pbworks page

explains how and why the newspaper is the most resourceful and truthful source of information compared to the internet, which half the time is filled with false information.

states why newspapers won't survive online and other ways that could make the industry thrive

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

This article brings in a few factors that play important roles in the future of the newspaper