How to read Newspapersprof. Jaewon Joo

Mass Media Reading

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20 Reasons to Study Media

1. Like history, because the media interpret the past to us show us what has gone into making us the way we are.

2. Like geography, because the media define for us our own place in the world.

3. Like civics, because the media help us to understand the workings of our immediate world, and our individual places in it.

4. Like literature, because the media are major sources of modern culture and entertainment.

5. Like literature, because the media require us to learn and use critical thinking skills.

6. Like business, because the media are major industries and are inextricably involved in commerce.

7. Like language, because the media help define how we communicate with each other.

8. Like science and technology, because the media help us to learn technology by adopting the leading edge of modern technological innovation.

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20 Reasons to Study Media

9. Like family studies, because the media determine much of our cultural diet and weave part of the fabric of our lives. 10. Like environmental studies, because the media are as big a part of our everyday environment as are trees, mountains, rivers, cities and oceans.11. Like philosophy, because the media interpret our world, its values and ideas to us.12. Like psychology, because the media helps us (mis)understand ourselves and others.13. Like science, because the media explain to us how things work.14. Like industrial arts, because the media are carefully planned, designed and constructed products.15. Like the arts, because through the media we experience all the arts as no other age has ever done.16. Like politics, because the media bring us political and ideological messages all the time - yes - all the time.

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20 Reasons to Study Media

17. Like rhetoric, because the media use special codes and conventions of their own languages that we need to understand.

18. Like drama, because the media help us understand life by presenting it as larger-than-life, and compel us to think in terms of the audience.

19. Like Everest, because they are there.

20. BECAUSE THE MEDIA GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO STUDY YOU!

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What isNewspaper?

• Newspaper covers a huge range of output across all media and is recognisable as a form of communication in almost every country of the world.

• People can learn the prevailing condition of economy, politics, and culture by reading article in the newspaper.

•Nobody can keep contact with the outside world without reading the newspaper

•Being ignorant of current topics, people cannot take part in the talks and discussion in an enlightened society.

•Three main characteristics you should remember when you read a journalistic article to decide whether it is good or bad. Impartiality, Balance & Sources

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What isNewspaper?

• A newspaper is a publication that is issued daily or weekly and includes local and international news stories, advertisements, announcements, opinions, cartoons, sports news and television listings.

• Even with the advancements in computer technology, newspapers continue to be an important aspect of everyday life.

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Types ofNewspaper

Broadsheet Berliner Tabloid

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TabloidVs.Broadsheet

Tabloid Broadsheet

Mix fact and emotion More fact than emotion

Shorter sentences Longer sentences

Use biased and emotional language Unbiased and clear language

Stories are mixed together Divided into clear sections

Less complex vocabulary Complicated Vocabulary

Focus on famous people, private lives and scandals Focus on major national and international events

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Tabloids

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One tabloid,two truth…

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One tabloid,two truth…

Angry Liverpool fans in Wembley protest at Sun as Sunday edition comes out

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Tabloids

Tabloid newspapers frequently invent stories for the entertainment of their readers, or run with what might charitably be described as fanciful headlines.

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Sections ofNewspaper

Parts of Newspaper

• Front page

• Editorial page

• Feature page

• Literary page

• Sports page

• Etc.

Front pageEditorial page

Feature pageMasthead

Banner

Headline

Ears

Columns

Column rules

Front pageEditorial page

Feature page

Index

Folio

Front pageEditorial page

Feature page

REQUIEM FOR HEROES. Rescuers dig out of the muddy rubble the bodies of a fireman, an engineer and a volunteer

who died trying to save the victims of a landslide at SitioBuyagan in La Trinidad, Benguet, on Friday. EV ESPIRITU/INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON

Cutline and Creditline

Front pageEditorial page

Feature page

Byline

*150 die in Benguet slide

Baby’s body in sack moves mayor to cry

By Delmar Cariño, Vincent Cabreza, Frank Cimatu

Front pageEditorial page

Feature page

Front page

Editorial pageFeature page

Editorial cartoon

Folio

EDITORIAL LINER

Editorial liner

A short statement or a quote or a saying

written at the bottom of the editorial page that

drives home a message

Front page

Editorial pageFeature page

Letters to the editor

Front page

Editorial pageFeature page

MastheadEditorial box

Editorial cartoon

Editorial proper

Front page

Editorial pageFeature page

Editorial Column

• Personal opinion by the columnist himself

• May attack, teach, entertain, or appeal

Front page

Editorial pageFeature page

Front page

Editorial page

Feature page

Article topics

• Arts and leisure• Religion

• Entertainment• Comics• Reviews

Parts of a feature page

Section’s name

folio

Columns/feature articles

byline

photos

captions

Front page

Editorial page

Feature page