The Background of Newspapers
A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing columns that express the personal opinions of writers. Supplementary sections may contain advertising, comics, and coupons.
A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing columns that express the personal opinions of writers. Supplementary sections may contain advertising, comics, and coupons.
Newspapers are most often published on a daily or weekly basis, and they usually focus on one particular geographic area where most of their readers live this ishow I will be operating. Despite recent setbacks in circulation and profits, newspapers are still the most iconic outlet for news and other types of written journalism.
While most newspapers are aimed at a broad spectrum of readers, usually geographically defined, some focus on groups of readers defined more by their interests than their location: for example, there are daily and weekly business newspapers and sports newspapers. More specialist still are some weekly newspapers, usually free and distributed within limited areas; these may serve communities as specific as certain immigrant populations. In the area in which I am going to be operating their are many different newspapers for example the Wokingham news or the Bracknell standard. These are some of the newspapers targeted to local people.
Daily Newspapers
A daily newspaper is issued every day, sometimes with the exception of Sundays and some national holidays. Saturday and, where they exist, Sunday editions of daily newspapers tend to be larger, include more specialized sections and advertising inserts, and cost more. Typically, the majority of these newspapers’ staff work Monday to Friday, so the Sunday and Monday editions largely depend on content done in advance or content that is syndicated. Most daily newspapers are published in the morning. Afternoon or evening papers are aimed more at commuters and office workers.
Weekly Newspapers
Weekly newspapers are common and tend to be smaller than the daily papers. In some cases, there also are newspapers that are published twice or three times a week. Some newspapers such as "The Sun" which is a National paper they operate through out the week but they also operate a seperate paper on Sundays. I will be just operating y paper once a week.
National
Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the whole country: a national newspaper, as contrasted with a local newspaper serving a city or region. In the United Kingdom, there are numerous national newspapers, including The Independent, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express and The Daily Mirror.
International Newspapers
There is also a small group of newspapers which may be characterised as international newspapers. Some, such as Christian Science Monitor and The International Herald Tribune, have always had that focus, while others are repackaged national newspapers or “international editions” of national-scale or large metropolitan newspapers. Often these international editions are scaled down to remove articles that might not interest the wider range of readers.
As English has become the international language of business and technology, many newspapers formerly published only in non-English languages have also developed English-language editions. In places as varied as Jerusalem and Bombay (Mumbai), newspapers are printed to a local and international English-speaking public. The advent of the Internet has also allowed the non-English newspapers to put out a scaled-down English version to give their newspaper a global outreach.
A daily newspaper is issued every day, sometimes with the exception of Sundays and some national holidays. Saturday and, where they exist, Sunday editions of daily newspapers tend to be larger, include more specialized sections and advertising inserts, and cost more. Typically, the majority of these newspapers’ staff work Monday to Friday, so the Sunday and Monday editions largely depend on content done in advance or content that is syndicated. Most daily newspapers are published in the morning. Afternoon or evening papers are aimed more at commuters and office workers.
Weekly Newspapers
Weekly newspapers are common and tend to be smaller than the daily papers. In some cases, there also are newspapers that are published twice or three times a week. Some newspapers such as "The Sun" which is a National paper they operate through out the week but they also operate a seperate paper on Sundays. I will be just operating y paper once a week.
National
Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the whole country: a national newspaper, as contrasted with a local newspaper serving a city or region. In the United Kingdom, there are numerous national newspapers, including The Independent, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express and The Daily Mirror.
International Newspapers
There is also a small group of newspapers which may be characterised as international newspapers. Some, such as Christian Science Monitor and The International Herald Tribune, have always had that focus, while others are repackaged national newspapers or “international editions” of national-scale or large metropolitan newspapers. Often these international editions are scaled down to remove articles that might not interest the wider range of readers.
As English has become the international language of business and technology, many newspapers formerly published only in non-English languages have also developed English-language editions. In places as varied as Jerusalem and Bombay (Mumbai), newspapers are printed to a local and international English-speaking public. The advent of the Internet has also allowed the non-English newspapers to put out a scaled-down English version to give their newspaper a global outreach.
Despite recent setbacks in circulation and profits, newspapers are still the most iconic outlet for news and other types of written journalism. Features a newspaper may include are:
Editorial - opinions, criticism, persuation,entertainment and op-eds
Obituaries
Comic strips and other entertainment, such as crosswords, sudoku and horoscopes
Weather news and forecasts
Advice, gossip, food and other columns
Critical reviews of movies, plays, restaurants, etc.
Classified ads
Impact of T.V. and the Internet on Newspapers
Newspaper sales, in the UK, are in gradual long term decline. The fragmenting media landscape, in particular the growth of the internet, has put huge pressure on newspaper sales.
By the late 1990s the availability of news via 24-hour television channels and then the Internet posed an ongoing challenge to the business model of most newspapers in developed countries. Paid circulation has declined, while advertising revenue — which makes up the bulk of most newspapers’ income — has been shifting from print to the new media, resulting in a general decline in profits. Many newspapers around the world launched online editions in an attempt to follow or stay ahead of their audience.
However, in the rest of the world, cheaper printing and distribution, increased literacy, the growing middle class and other factors have more than compensated for the emergence of electronic media and newspapers continue to grow. With the introduction of the Internet, web-based “newspapers” have also started to be produced as online-only publications, like the Southport Reporter. To be a Web-Only newspaper they must be web-published only and must not be part of or have any connection to hard-copy formats. To be classed as an Online Only Newspaper, the paper must also be regularly updated at a regular time and keep to a fixed news format, like a hardcopy newspaper. They must also be only published by professional media companies and regarded under the national/international press rules and regulations unlike blog sites and other news websites, it is run as a newspaper and is recognized by media groups in the UK. Large newspaper companies such as The Sun, The Times and The Daily Mail all operate an online service as well as selling there papers in the shops. Large newspaper firms such as these can afford to have this luxury but small local newspapers don’t always as it is very cost effective.
Below is a list of the most widely read newspapers from the internet. The Sun was the most widely read online UK newspaper for the month of March 2008. Here is a list of the Top 10 read newspapers (in order of most read to least read):
1. The Sun Online
2. Guardian.co.uk
3. Telegraph Group
4. Times Online
5. DailyMail.co.uk
6. Independent.co.uk
7. Mirror.co.uk
8. Financial Times Group
9. Metro.co.uk
10. ThisIsLondon.co.uk
Below is a article from the internet regarding newspaper print sales. Newspaper Print Sales: Will The Decline Ever End?
The question is no longer how far national newspaper circulation can fall, but whether it will stop falling at all. The latest ABC figures for August illustrate how readers continue to leave in droves…
—Daily papers’ are down three percent year on year to a total average of 11.32 million 10.98 million a day.—Sundays fell 5.3 percent to 11.82 million 11.18 million copies a week.
August is a quiet month, the industry likes to say—but that doesn’t help explain away the sheer size of some declines.
Of the dailies, only the Daily Star—massively discounted at 20p and backed by advertising spend—managed a circulation lift and The Sunday Times offered the only other glimmer of hope with a modest 0.7 percent rise year on year.
Regional ABCs: Evening newspaper sales drop 5.3 per cent
The total circulation of Britain's regional evening newspapers was down 5.3 per cent in the second half of 2007, with only two titles gaining sales on the same period a year earlier.
The evening sector was down 5.3 per cent on last year with only two newspapers gaining sales.
Total average daily sale for the 72 evening newspapers in Britain is 2,629,193 down 5.3 per cent from the 2,777,041 total of a year ago.
The Advertiser was up 0.4 per cent to 22,219 benefiting from a 4 per cent boost in home deliveries. The paper launched a “reader acquisition programme" in February 2007. The paper has consistently been outperforming the evening sector.
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