Introduction to Print Media:

The main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and

the Internet) regarded collectively.
NEWSPAPER: A paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or
weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and
advertising.
Format of a newspaper:
Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly. News
magazines are also weekly but they have a magazine format. General-
interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature
articles on national and international news as well as local news.
What does it include?
The news includes political events and personalities, business and
finance, crime, weather, and natural disasters; health and
medicine, science, and computers and technology; sports;
and entertainment, society, food and cooking, clothing and home
fashion, and the arts.
Sections of the Newspaper:
Usually the paper is divided into different sections for example
National, Advertisement, International, Editorial, Opinion, Business
Sports, and Metropolitan etc.
Most traditional papers also feature an Editorial page
containing editorials written by an editor (or by the paper's editorial
board) and expressing an opinion on a public issue, opinion articles
written by guest writers (which are typically in the same section as the
editorial), and columns that express the personal opinions of columnists,
usually offering analysis and synthesis that attempts to translate the
raw data of the news into information telling the reader "what it all
means" and persuading them to concur. Moreover, features are also
there. A feature story is usually the longest article in your newspaper,
above 1000 words. Typically, you only want to have one of them per
issue. It is a blend of a news. It is recognized due to its style and length.
A wide variety of material has been published in newspapers.
Besides the aforementioned news, information and opinions, they
include weather forecasts; criticism and reviews of the arts
(including literature, film, television, theater, fine arts, and architecture)
and of local services such as restaurants; birth notices and graduation
announcements; entertainment features such as puzzles,
horoscopes, editorial cartoons, and comic strips; advice columns, food,
and other columns; and radio and television listings (program
schedules).
As of 2017, newspapers may also provide information about new
movies and TV shows. Newspapers have classified ad sections where
people and businesses can buy small advertisements to sell goods or
services; as of 2013, the huge increase in Internet websites for selling
goods has led to significantly less classified ad sales for newspapers.
Some newspapers are government-run or at least government-
funded; their reliance on advertising revenue and on profitability is less
critical to their survival. The editorial independence of a newspaper is
thus always subject to the interests of someone, whether owners,
advertisers, or a government. Some newspapers with high editorial
independence, high journalism quality, and large circulation are viewed
as newspapers of record.
Many newspapers, besides employing journalists on their own
payrolls, also subscribe to news agencies (wire services) (such as
the Associated Press, Reuters, or Agence France-Presse), which employ
journalists to find, assemble, and report the news, then sell the content to
the various newspapers. This is a way to avoid duplicating the expense
of reporting from around the world.
Newspapers typically meet four criteria:

 Public accessibility: Its contents are reasonably accessible to the

public, traditionally by the paper being sold or distributed at
newsstands, shops, and libraries, and, since the 1990s, made available
over the Internet with online newspaper websites. While online
newspapers have increased access to newspapers by people with
Internet access, people without Internet or computer access
(e.g., homeless people, impoverished people and people living in
remote or rural regions may not be able to access the Internet, and
thus will not be able to read online news). Literacy is also a factor
which prevents people who cannot read from being able to benefit
from reading newspapers (paper or online).
 Periodicity: They are published at regular intervals, typically daily
or weekly. This ensures that newspapers can provide information on
newly-emerging news stories or events.
 Currency: Its information is as up to date as its publication
schedule allows. The degree of up-to-date-ness of a print newspaper
is limited by the need of time to print and distribute the newspaper. In
major cities, there may be a morning edition and a later edition of the
same day's paper, so that the later edition can incorporate breaking
news that have occurred since the morning edition was printed.
Online newspapers can be updated as frequently as new information
becomes available, even a number of times per day, which means that
online editions can be very up-to-date.
 Universality: Newspapers covers a range of topics, from political
and business news to updates on science and technology, arts, culture,
and entertainment.