News and Newspaper
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Newspaper have undergone a dramatic evolution to revolve into what we know of today. Back in the olden days, printing press was a challenge, it required tremendous amount of effort and labour force. During the 15th century in 1436, a very basic printing press that used movable wooden and wood was invented by Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg created this machine to print multiple copies in a short period of time instead of printing each copy by hand.
In the following century, Friedrik Koenig developed a steam powered machine that printed faster and produce a larger quantity. In the 18th century, America started increase the usage of printing press.Readership and ownership of newspaper were low in the ancient times. Only the wealthy and the educated owned newspapers, news were then spread through mouth. News was not timely due to the time time it tool to print news, by the time newspapers were published, it became outdated.
1830s was the birth of mass print news, printing efficiency increased as printers evolved. As time passed, everyone became a newspaper regardless of their class.
Newspaper became the main source to spread political news, especially during the civil war period, consequently causing a ass newspaper boom. In 1895, newspapers’ content was modified and it became interesting in terms of contents compared to the previous newspapers. In 1930, newspaper industry was affected by the radio and television industry, in 1970, television became the main news sources for everything, audience were attracted to it visually. In this digital era, people tend to count on their mobile devices especially smart phone after the invention of Internet. We can get any information and news just with one click. The existences of news were to inform everyone and to spread important information but these days the news are to earn profits.
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Nowadays, the youths are no longer reading the news from the newspaper. Youngsters would rather retrieve the news from the Internet via their electroni devices, because people prefer scrolling in comparison to flipping pages. As teenagers ourselves, our view on newspaper is plain boring, since scrolling is more appealing, we don’t see the point of bringing a stack of newspaper everywhere. Though it’s portable, we could easily fit electronic devices in our pockets and access information with network connection. Besides, newspapers cost money; Internet is free; from a cost effective point of view, smart phones are efficient. These days, everyone is engaged in their electronic devices, we can easily get the latest news just by a tap, this is much more convenient than going all around and looking for newspaper seller. Moreover, Internet is visually better in terms of videos, high quality pictures and illusions. Furthermore, news spread quickly on the net, young people want to keep themselves up-to-date, so they consider reading newspaper from the hard copy print as old fashioned. Traditional newspaper are being undervalued into the oblivion. On Internet, people can comment, express their views and opinions but this can’t be done on newspaper.
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Although reading online news is more convenient there are still a huge amount of audience depend on the newspaper. Why? Firstly, newspaper consists of credible information compared to online news. Sites on internet are never reliable, it tends to provide false information, hence numbers of sources have to be visited before we could verify the information.
Newspaper would still exist without electricity but in today’s world electricity is needed for printing. Newspaper is useful in many ways, which people don’t even realize. For examples, you can kill insects with newspaper; you can wrap (tapau) food with newspapers. Newspapers can be use to clean glass, windows, and mirrors. Newspapers can be recycled, reuse. It provides wide range of news, news that you aren’t even looking for. Besides, printed newspapers are portable and is easy to access compared to online news, which requires good network connection. Thus, people enjoy the portability factor.
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Newspaper dies hard and it is still relevant today with no doubt. On Internet we need to search up different topics but newspapers everything is there in just one stack.
Newspapers had come a long way since it was first introduced. Initially there was a huge readership since its introduction. But the readership had declined over the years after radio, television and later the internet was introduced. However we believe newspapers are important because it is more detailed compared to television, radio and the internet. The newspaper industry have a loyal readership in the Asian region however it will not sustain for the next decade. Online newspaper will most definitely replace it due to all the positive impacts it’s been granted of.
The print newspaper has the capability to cover the width, breath and depth of a news in one stack of paper which television. radio and internet lack of. On the newspaper's defence, reading news online harms our eyes due to the glare but newspaper on the other hand with good natural lighting, it is perfectly fine to read it and there no need to worry about causing any harm.
Individual Lecture Reflection
Individual Lecture Reflection
ZAID YUSOF NAZRIN DIEGO (0313327)
One of the topics discussed in lecture 6a was The Penny Press. I found it interesting and after some light research, I liked the fact that The Penny Press made newspapers affordable for members of the working class. This also enables the working class access to information and media information.
The Penny Press stood out to me because in a way, in a way I see it as a step from overcoming elitism. Reading newspapers used to be a privilege of the rich.
I think newspapers are important because is a powerful communication tool that has a wide audience and this makes forming public opinions easy. That’s why most powerful corporation and not forgetting the government have control over newspapers. Newspapers can be used to manipulate the masses.
In addition, I am not interested to work in the newspaper industry. This is because writing is not my forte and there are also ethical issues that journalists have to deal with.
TAY YAO QING (0318959)
In lecture 6, we’ve covered the history of newspaper. Although the newspaper looks simple but the process of making it is complicated, same goes to magazines, books and other printing media. I discovered that the newspaper industries have to face with many challenges in competing and attract audience in order to survive. Yellow journalism is a good example of market strategy. The existence of yellow journalism was an attempt to compete with rival newspapers. Besides of market rivalry, newspaper still has to crop with government laws and regulations. In olden days of America, colonial government did not endorse the idea of free press because most colonists believed that a paper had to have royal consent to be published. There are several conditions to ensure mass press could come into existence. Firstly, printing press had to be invented that would produce copies quickly and cheaply. Secondly, it requires enough people had to know how to read to support such a press. Thirdly, a mass audience had to be present.
The era of giving the news away for free online is now happening. However, newspapers are still important because newspaper is the foundation of all media. Besides, newspaper helps in spreading news to the oldest who doesn’t know how to access with online news and also those poor who cannot afford an online device.
Yes. I’m still interested to work in the newspaper industry as copyeditor. It is fun to work in newspaper industry as I’m going to be the first who receives the news before everyone else. I’ll enjoy the privilege on controlling the news spread.
Yin Ping
Newspapers had come a long way since it was first introduced. Initially there was a huge readership since its introduction. But the readership had declined over the years after radio, television and later the internet was introduced.
I believe newspapers are still important because it is more detailed compared to television, radio and the internet. Especially in the Asian region, newspapers still have a loyal readership and it is not disappearing anytime soon.
As for thoughts about working in the industry, I have an interest in working in the future as I enjoy writing. But at the same time, I am not a very timely person and I do not travel often so there may some difficulties.
Raaveniya Poovainthan (0322215)
This week’s lecture, again, was loaded with chunk of information dull information. There were names of great people who I was never aware of for example, the inventor of the very first print press machine, Johannes Gutenberg. I was exposed to the hardship of newspaper’s evolution. I became aware of this industry’s constant struggle with its competitors. During the newspaper consolidation era, newspaper companies compete with one another but in today’s digital age, internet emergence has led newspaper industry to compete with the prime media, the internet industry.
Newspaper is a form of news conveyer, after reading it, it is spread through word of mouth. I am skeptical as to whether this industry will sustain due to all the positive factors of online news media. The print publication industry themselves have recognise the changes themselves, that they’ve started publishing online edition.
As for working in the newspaper industry, I am definitely down for it however probably as a starter; to gain experience and to learn about this industry. Unless otherwise the industry rises again, I wouldn’t want a future in it.
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