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The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public. These include news agencies , newspapers , news magazines , news channels etc. History
The news media may be able to create new issues by reporting or they can obscure issues through negligence and distraction. For example, if neighborhoods are affected by high crime rates , or unemployment , journalists may not spend sufficient time reporting on potential solutions, or on systemic causes such as corruption and social exclusion ...
Sunday Paper: A Media History (U of Illinois Press, 2022) online review; DiGirolamo, Vincent, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (2019) Hampton, Mark, and Martin Conboy. "Journalism history—a debate" Journalism Studies (2014) 15#2 pp 154–171. Hampton argues that journalism history should be integrated with cultural, political ...
The history of American journalism began in 1690, when Benjamin Harris published the first edition of "Public Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic" in Boston. Harris had strong trans-Atlantic connections and intended to publish a regular weekly newspaper along the lines of those in London, but he did not get prior approval and his paper was suppressed after a single edition. [1]
O'Malley, Tom. "History, Historians and of the Writing of Print and Newspaper History in the UK c. 1945–1962," Media History (Special Issue: The Historiography of the Media in the United Kingdom) (2012) 18#3–4, DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2012.723492; Sommerville, C. John. The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996)
On the future of Spanish-language media in the U.S., Alberto Avendaño, ex-director of El Tiempo Latino/Washington Post, claimed that "Hispanic-American" news coverage in the English-language media is "absolutely pathetic," but he was optimistic, arguing that demographic shifts would inevitably render the Latino media a significant presence in ...
News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Subject matters for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, economy, business, fashion, sport, entertainment, and the environment, as well as quirky or unusual events.
The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930