Sunday, January 30, 2011

What is news? What is media?

News has two priorities: it must be current and it must mean something to people. The objective of news is to inform the audience. It's the job of all the news to tell people what's going on in their community locally, nationally, or globally. In this sense, the news media provide a valuable public service.

In general, media refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, and the newspaper are different types of media. In the news world, media is essentially the form in which the news is distributed and observed. Audiences today can get news and information from many different sources. This increased competition is putting pressure on media outlets to attract advertising dollars to keep them running.

The media has changed a lot in history. Fifty years ago everyone read the newspaper because everyone wanted to find out what is going on. Another option of media for the news back then was the radio and the news truly expanded when television was invented. However now it seems that the internet is the dominant form of news and media. Almost anyone can access countless news story by just clicking a few buttons on a computer. This technology is significantly slowing the distribution of newspapers and other news media.

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