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IMPORTANCE OF NEWS PAPERS

SUBMITTED BYJASNA MAJEED

MEDIA• Communication channels through which

news, entertainment,education,data or promotional messages are disseminated. Media includes every broadasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers,magazines,TV,radio,internet etc.

PRINT MEDIA

• News paper• Magazines

WHAT IS NEWS PAPER?

• A newspaper is a serial publication containing news, other informative articles, and usually advertising.

• Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly.

• The news includes political events and personalities, business and finance , crime, science and technology,sports,entertainment etc.

NEWSPPER MEETS FOUR CRITERIA

• Publicity- Its contents are reasonably accessible to the public.

• Periodicity-It is published at regular intervals• Currency-Its information is as up to date as its

publication schedule allows.• Universality-It covers a range of topics

HISTORY

THE BEGINNING

• Handwritten news sheets, government bulletin, announcements, and single item news publications preceded the newspaper.

• 1496: Gutenberg invented the first press• 1690:Boston, the birth, entitled publick

occurences• 1791:freedom of speech and press;became

center of media.

GROWTH

• Freedom of press sparked newspaper frenzy• 1880:11,314 different newspapers were

recorded in census• 1910’s: modern newspaper features emerged

HISTORY OF NEWSPAPER

• The first successively published title was THE WEEKLY NEWS OF 1622.It was followed in the 1640’s and 1650’s by a plethora of different titles in the similar newsbook format.

• The first true newspaper in english was the London Gazette of 1666 .For a generation it was the only officially sanctioned newspaper,though many periodical titles were in print by the century’s end.

• In America the first newspaper appeared in Boston in 1690,entitled “Publick Occurrences”. Published without authority, it was immediately suppressed, its publisher arrested, and all copies were destroyed.

• America’s The first successful newspaper was the Boston News-Letter, begun by postmaster John Campbell in 1704.

• By 1814 there were 346 newspapers.• In the Jacksonian populist 1830’s, advances in

printing and papermaking technology led to an explosion of newspaper growth, the emergence of the “Penny Press”;it was now possible to produce a newspaper that could be sold for just a cent copy. Previously newspapers were the province of the wealthy, literate minority.

NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION

• 1930s and 1940s The New york Times and the Milwaukee journal sponsor programs that are dedicated to providing newspapers and curriculam aides to the classroom teacher.

• Now a days about 900 newspaper companies provide newspapers to schools in their local areas.This program started in the 1960s and is called Newspapers In Education(NIE).

• NIE program is one in which newspapers are distributed to schools or other institutions that conduct educational programs.NIE is designed to make reading and newspapers a fun and profitable learning experience ;the key being fun.

WHY USING NEWSPAPERS IN THE CLASSROOMS

• They are inexpensive• They are readily obtainable.• They are versatile.• They can be used for individual or cooperative

activities.• They are a source of current information.

ADVANTAGES

• Newspapers introduce students to the cultural and linguistic aspects.

• They can be used for individual and group work.

• The content is updated.• Learners can internalize a full range of world

background knowledge, language conventions and vocabulary by exposure through reading.

CONCLUSIONS

• The wide selection of online newspapers, being the digital versions of the printed ones, help learners have access to the news of the English Speaking countries at extremely low cost, high speed and enourmous variety.

• Using news for teaching materials help learners to improve their reading skills, enrich the vocabulary, gain some cultural knowledge and be up-to-date with the current situation in the whole world.

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