What is Print Media ?

“The print media is composed of newspapers, community newsletters,

wire services, magazines, and other publications.”
 Within these publications, there are two main divisions of labor:
i. reporting and
ii. editing.
 Reporters are the newspaper writers who investigate newsworthy
events and interesting stories.
 What is Print Media ?
 Editors assign stories to reporters, edit story content, and
decide which stories to print.
 The print media is an effective way to alert the public to the
Weatherization Assistance Program and its work.

 Major types of Print Media
 Newspapers
 Magazines
 Books
Newspapers
 It took about 150 years from the invention of printing press-first regular publication
 newspapers’ history is 400 years old
 the first newspaper published in France in 1605.
 Here is a brief account of some popular papers:
 a brief account of some popular papers:
 1621 ---- In London, the newspaper Courante is published.
 1631 ---- The Gazette, the first French newspaper, is founded.
 1639 ---- First American colonial printing press.
 1645 ---- World’s oldest newspaper still in circulation, Post-och Inrikes
Tidningar, is published in Sweden
 1690 ---- Publick Occurrences is the first newspaper published in
America when it appears in Boston
 a brief account of some popular papers:
 1803 ---- Australia’s military government publishes the Sydney Gazette
and New South Wales Advertiser, the country’s first newspaper.
 1844 ---- Telegraph is invented.
 1851 ---- Reuters – news agency, is established.
 1900 ----Vladimir Lenin founds Iskra, in Leipzig, Germany.
 1903 ---- Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord North cliffe) develops the first
tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mirror,
in London.
 a brief account of some popular papers in
Pakistan
 All Pakistan Newspapers Society (ANPS) was in 1953 by
major newspaper owners
o Jang Group
 It is Pakistan's largest group of newspapers
 Mir Khalil ur Rehman was the founder of the group and 
 his son, Mir Shakil ur Rehman, is the present head
 a brief account of some popular papers in
Pakistan
o Dawn Group
 DAWN is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language
newspaper
 It was founded by Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi,
 India, on 26 October 1941 as a mouthpiece for the Muslim League.
 As of 2010, it has a weekday circulation of over 109,000.
 a brief account of some popular papers in
Pakistan
o Nawa-i-waqt Group
 It was launched on March 23, 1940,
  Launched by Hameed Nizami
 His younger brother Majid Nizami was 2nd owner-editor
 Arif Nizami
 a brief account of some popular papers in
Pakistan
 In the beginning (1947)
 Pakistan started a weak press with very little rules and regulations (very
few news).
 Not a single newspaper was published in East Pakistan and Baluchistan
 but in the NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa) had two daily
newspapers. 
 These newspapers were owned by Muslims who had migrated to
Pakistan. 
 a brief account of some popular papers in
Pakistan
 Including Daily Azad and Moring news (shifted to Dhaka), Jang, dawn
and anjam (in Karachi)
 After Pakistan came in to his existence, a number of newspapers were
published
 such as ROSHNI, INQALAB and MUSALMAN.
 Not a single daily had been published from the area of East Pakistan from
1947 to 1971.
 Contents of News-paper
 Political events
 Crime
 Business
 Culture
 Sports
 Opinions (either editorials, columns, or political cartoons)
 Newspapers use photographs to illustrate stories; they use editorial cartoonists,
usually to illustrate writing that is opinion, rather than news.
  Express Media Group 2 Largest nd

 Sultan Lakhani today is the CEO of Express Media Group

 Join owner the Lakson Group
 CEO of Century Publications (Pvt. Ltd.), Editor-in-Chief of the 
Daily Express, Daily Sindh Express & Express News Channel (Pvt. Ltd.)
 Honorary Consul General of Mexico in Pakistan
 Member, Senate (Upper House) of Pakistan from 1987 to 1994
 Advisor to the Century Insurance Company Limited
 ARY News
 launched on 26 September 2004
ARY is an acronym of Abdul Razzak Yaqoob
• ARY Digital - general entertainment channel
• ARY Musik - music channel
• ARY Qtv - religious channel
• ARY Zindagi - general entertainment channel
• BOL Network and its defunct BOL News channel were taken over in
August 2015 by ARY Digital Network's CEO Salman Iqbal
 features a newspaper may include
 weather news and forecasts
 an advice column
 critical reviews of movies, plays, restaurants, etc
 editorial opinions
 a sports column or section
 features a newspaper may include
a humor column or section
a food column
 a gossip column
comic strips and other entertainment, such as crosswords and
horoscopes
 Types of newspapers
 International newspapers
Weekly newspapers
 Sunday newspapers
 National newspaper
 Local newspaper
 Magazines
“A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles,
generally financed by advertising, purchased by readers, or both.”
 Magazines are typically published weekly, biweekly, monthly,
bimonthly or quarterly
 They are often printed in colour on coated paper, and are bound
with a soft cover.
 Types of magazines
 Art magazines
 Business magazines
 Music magazines
 Computer magazines
 Children's magazines
 Health and fitness magazines
 History magazines
 Types of magazines
 Inspirational magazines
 Men's magazines
 Humor magazines
 Women's magazines
 Luxury magazines
 News magazines
 Online magazines
 Types of magazines
 Regional magazines
 Satirical magazines
 Teen magazines
Fashion
 Advertisers