Blog #7

1. The partisan press mainly wrote about politics and the people who read these articles were wealthy and educated. The reason why the partisan press targeted highly educated and wealthy people is because they controlled local politics and businesses.

2. Newspapers emerged as a mass medium during the penny press era due to the modern technology that cut the costs of newspapers dramatically. The penny press newspapers was very popular to the middle and working class because they could now afford to buy them. The middle class also had more free time to read the newspaper. The interest that people liked to read was crimes people have committed not so much about politics and businesses.

3.  The two main features of yellow journalism are stories were over dramatic and that journalists would find out what businesses is struggling. The stories that are over dramatic talked about disasters, celebrities, crimes and scandals. People were very interested in these particular topics.

4. Newspapers declined during the Great Depression  and when the radio was becoming popular. People realized that it was cheaper to listen to radio than buying newspapers. Television also posed a threat to the decrease in newspaper industry.

5. Citizen journalism came about when the internet came about. The people who wrote these articles are not professional journalists. Instead, these amateur journalists would use the internet  and blogs to send out information and news.

6. The challenges that new online sites face is the major change of print journalism’s businesses. If the newspaper puts local ads and coupons in their newspapers, more people will end up reading the newspaper. These ads and coupons will attract people’s attention and it would be more likely that people will return to that newspaper site.

7.  The newspaper’s role in democracy is keeping people informed about the news around the world. However, many reporters have been killed trying to keep the world informed on what’s going on in other countries. Many of these deaths included reporting in foreign countries during a war. The world depends on reporters to keep us updated on what’s happening around the world.

8. Magazines made a social reform in the turn of the twentieth century because they could write more in depth and their articles were longer in length. They also wrote about interesting topics such as urban problems immigrants face, racial issues and issues big business are dealing with.

9. The advantages magazines have moving into the digital form is by expanding and reaching out to their customers in different ways. Online magazines allows more space for information and things to do that print magazines can’t. Some of the things online magazines have are videos, blogs, games and virtual fitting rooms.

10. What triggered the move toward magazine specialization is radio and television. What radio and television did was target an audience so magazines began to target a specific audience which guaranteed advertisements in their magazines. 

11. Adverting in magazines affects what gets published because by advertising, it gives information about politics, society, and culture which allows us to put ourselves in a democracy.  Except, the magazines look at their customers as a consumer first and citizens second. Magazines do help us stay connected to words and keeping up with the new technologies.