Newspaper evolution

To explain the newspaper evolution is important to know what the mass media is.
The mass media is maybe the most important clue that has changed the way to precede the information. It is a set of elements that trough them the information is reported massively to the society. It is the way trough which the information is collected, processed and communicated.

The first method of communication that born in the society is the capacity to remember histories that old generations told, and those histories are remembered and retold to the new generations. It was an oral method.

In that oral stage, people have improved in the society and in language. There was a shift when the man created the writing and the media that endure: in that way it appears the writing and printing. The newspaper starts to be very used in the society, everyday news were explained for them in the mass media.

The new technologies development affected and affect nowadays to all the mass media. Computing and the Internet have improved and optimized the production process and the mode of transmission of news.

Is in that decade when the computer becomes the owner of the industrial production of paper. Also nowadays is the same in electronic newsrooms, conducting plates for printing, etc. that is all controlled by the computer.

New instruments have born to obtain information from electronic mail, satellite signals, cell phones and digital cameras among other resources have transformed the traditional print media.


The digital newspaper like an interactive tool

Nowadays, in our society there is the traditional newspaper and the digital newspaper. The digital newspaper is characterized by his interactivity with the users. We talk about interactivity because it offers a few interactive contents, that is to say, multimedia contents (images, videos, texts…) that allow that the reader should participate more actively.

In the digital newspaper we can find interactive tools as the hypertext (links). A digital newspaper has more text contents than multimedia contents. These contents update in relation to when the news happens. So, the structure of a digital newspaper is hierarchic because the contents are arranged from a bigger importance to a minor importance.

The digital newspaper presents readers' letters, e-mails of contact, forums, surveys and interviews. In a digital newspaper we can find access to versions of the diary printed in format PDF. A good thing of the digital newspaper it is that it can store a lot of information whereas the traditional not; and something bad is that the reader has few opportunities to take part in the production of the news.


Advantages and disadvantages of the digital newspaper

The online newspaper has many advantages over traditional newspaper. First of all we should note that online newspapers add a lot of tools that add information to the news. The tools give to the reader more information and understanding of the news. The traditional newspaper only has texts and some images, the online newspaper add videos, surveys, lector’s comments, etc. It makes easier the act of read the newspaper.

Another advantage is the price. Read the newspaper online means not to pay anything. However, we have to pay some money to read a traditional newspaper. So this is another factor to choose the online newspaper.

The next advantage is the new attitude of the lectors. They can give their opinion and discuss her point of view with the other lectors. It’s another think that traditional newspaper can’t offer.

Another factor is the convenience. It’s more convenient to choose what you want to read with a click of your mouse than search the content you want to read on the pages of the newspaper. However stay a lot of hours in front of the screen is bad for our eyes.


miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2011

Newspaper Industry: Evolution or Catastrophe?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/113569-newspaper-industry-evolution-or-catastrophe

In this article, Mathew Ingram says that in Internet we can find and we will continue finding blogs, articles of magazines and more sites of information. We speak about a crafted industry that studies the "failure" of important newspapers as the New York Times, for example. The article comments that some people have the opinion that bloggers have been those who have killed the journalistic industry whereas others are more optimistic about the evolution of the mass media, as the newspaper.

There have been many predictions about the death of the old mass media as the newspaper and other mediums. But when we speak about journalistic death we talk about the end of impression? And why now old mass media die more rapidly?

A serious problem is that many newspapers only can survive if they cut away expenses (between 75% or 80%); we speak about personal expenses and everything relates to the use of press. But would this also suppose the end of the journalism?

Many other issues are still about whether the newspaper industry is improving or deteriorating; but the answer is in the air, so we have to wait and see what will bring the future and come face what is good or bad.

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3 comentarios:

  1. Ari9 de mayo de 2011, 1:53

    What is said in this article is the pessimistic part of the evolution of the newspaper and the optimistic one.
    In the first part of this, the blame is putted on the people who write in the blogs. In my opinion, it is because of the information the write on, maybe because is not all true. They write about what they think about the topic or they write about what they have heard. This is what made the information very subjective.
    People who take the optimistic part of the evolution of the newspaper are because they trust that the online media is the best way to envelope. The online media offers a lot of aspects that attract the readers; because of the interactive way to inform and what comfortable it is for read all you want in every place you are.

    Ari

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  2. meri11 de mayo de 2011, 14:29

    In my opinion, I think that the people who write in the blogs can't be compared with the professional journalists. On the one hand, we have to know that journalists have studied four years to learn to communicate properly and the bloggers are just people who write what they heard without checking the information. Therefore, we have to know that journalists have more tools to know the truth than the bloggers, who only write what they hear from citizens.

    Finally, i'm agree with the optimistic part of the article, wich says that the online media are interactive and give us all we want without move. If we're searching something particular, we only have to write the word and a large list appears infront of our eyes. It's so amazing to think about the time that we earn with the internet, because doing that in a traditional way means that we waste a lot of hours.

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  3. Josep15 de mayo de 2011, 15:18

    Yes, I agree with Ariadna in the part pessimistic and optimistic at the same time. The Blogg writers are unreliable, I usually go in search of good music Bloggs, but there are a lot of people that writes like with winds of institution.

    Im not sure if the last sentence is clear, but that i want to express is that there are a lot of people who writes with minimal knowledge of the matter.

    I think that the news papers will be destroyed, because the electronic ink it's more cheap , and with an e-book or ipad we can see the ordinary newspaper every day, wasting less time buying it.


    I'm a lover of the books in paper version , and I will not stop buying paper books , an if I want to read a newspaper , I hope that will have the opportunity to read in physical version.

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