ADV 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Penny Press, A.D. Vision, Fake News
13 Oct 2020
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Printed product created on a regular basis (daily/weekly) and released in multiple copies. Newspapers distribute and exhibit news beyond their boundaries. Newspapers compete across multiple windows, with many kinds of content and services. Newspapers flourish among the 1700s across the west. Late 1700s: foundations of the adversarial press. Newspapers as mass media: 19th and 20th centuries. Rising literacy rates make newspapers a central medium for the common man . Mid-1800s: the penny press helped make news more accessible. Fierce competition continues into the 20th century. Urbanization helps to create the big city newspaper, which flourishes in the early 20th century. Newspapers continue to face challenges upon the rise of radio, tv, cable news, and the internet. As newspapers falter, a prominent and highly profitable industry faces destabilizing changes. Lecture 2: production, distribution, consumption, and finance of newspapers. Distribution is generally local, save for a few papers that aim for international markets.
