Mass Media. Newspapers

1. Mass Media

Newspapers

2. What is a newspaper?

It is a paper printed
and sold daily or
weekly with news ,
advertisements ,
articles about
political, crime,
business , art,
entertainment ,
sport events.

3. From history of newspaper…

FROM HISTORY OF NEWSPAPER…
In ancient Rome, announcement
bulletins of the Acta Diurna
government were made public by
Julius Caesar. They were carved
on stone or metal and posted in
public places.
In China, early government-produced
news sheets, during the late Han
dynasty (second and third centuries
AD).
Between 713 and 734, the Chinese
Tang Dynasty published government
news; it was handwritten on silk and
read by government officials.

4.

Printing press was
invented in the15th
century in Germany
The first Russian
printed newspaper
was introduced in
1702 by Peter I. It
was "Vedomosti”

5. Russian newspapers

Today Russia can be
proud of the variety of
newspapers. You can
find newspapers of all
kinds: national and local,
official and private,
quality and popular;
newspapers for children,
teenagers, people of
different trends, for all
kind of fans: sport-fans,
car-fans, etc.

6.

Daily
Weekly
Local
Newspapers
Quality
(Broadsheets)
National
Popular
(Tabloids)

7. Types of newspapers

Usually newspapers are
divided into two groups:
quality and popular.
Quality papers contain
political, economic
news, popular papers
have short articles about
celebrities, crime, large
headlines and a lot of
pictures.
Though now it is almost
impossible to classify all
the Russian newspapers
into these groups.

8. Local papers

In our Republic we
have some
newspapers too.
They usually write
about local news.
The papers also
include weather
reports and a TV
guide.

9.

The most popular
newspaper in
Cheboksary is “Pro
gorod” because it is
delivered free.

10. Some words about press on Britain

The "quality" papers are for
more serious
readership. These
papers are bigger in
size, with larger articles
and more detailed
information. They are "The Times", "Daily
Telegraph", "The
Guardian", "Financial
Times", "The
Independent".
The popular papers are
less in size, with many
pictures, big headlines
and short articles. They
are easy to read. They
are such papers as
"Daily Express" "Daily
mail", "Daily Mirror",
"Daily Star", "The Sun"
and others.

11. Where are the broadsheets and tabloids?

12. Teenage magazines

A lot of young girls in
Russia like to read
magazines “Cool”,
“Oops”, “Все звезды”
because they have
glossy colourful covers
and include beauty and
fashion, celebrity gossip,
horoscopes, quizzes.
Boys prefer reading
music magazines and
about sport, such as
“Football”, “Fishing” and
others.

13. Conclusion

Though newspapers are not so popular
nowadays as Internet or TV, there are a
lot of people who prefer reading to
watching.
Thanks for attention!