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| (actions of the day).. written on a tablet, and posted on the wall after each meeting of the senate. |
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| one page news sheets about specific events, printed in English in Holland in 1620 and imported to England by British booksellers who were eager to satisfy public demand for information about continental happenings that eventually led to what we now call the 30 year war |
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| The true forerunners of our daily newspaper |
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| single sheet announcements or accounts of events imported from England |
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| made illegal writing, publishing, or printing “ any false scandalous and malicious writing” about the president, congress, or the federal government. They were very unpopular and did not get renewed |
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| a 1- cent newspaper for everyone, the first in 1833 was the New York Sun. they were sold so cheaply in order to attract a large readership |
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| when papers pool efforts and share expenses to collect the news, the first was the New York Associated Press in 1856 |
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| First done by Pulitzer, was a study of excess sensational sex, crime, and disaster news; big headlines, lots of illustrations, and reliance on cartoons and color. Successful at first although public reaction to the excess of yellow journalism soon led to its decline |
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| readers who did not originally buy the paper |
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| suburban or regional versions of the paper to attract to attract readers and to combat competition for advertising dollars from the suburban papers. |
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| Usually weekly papers available at no cost, usually aimed at young people |
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| weeklies with a very local and very political orientation |
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| do not gather and distribute news. Instead they operate as clearinghouses for the work of columnists, essayists, cartoonists, and other creative individuals. |
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| Joint Operating Agreements (JOA) |
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| permits a failing paper to merge most aspects of its business with a successful local competitoras long as their editorial and reporting operations remain separate |
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| Integrated audience reach |
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| the total number of readers of the print edition plus those unduplicated web readers who access the paper only online |
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| sensational stories that do not serve the democratic function of journalism |
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| stories that help citizens to make intelligent decisions and keep up with the important issues of the day |
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| the way newspapers and other media influence not only what we think but what we think about |
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| A period of time at the start of the 20th century where magazines exposed greedy corporations and monopolies |
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| special versions of a give issue in which editorial content and ads vary according to some specific demographics or regional grouping |
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| the total number of issues of a magazine that are sold |
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| providing a magazine at no cost to readers who meet some specific set of advertiser- attractive criteria i.e airline and hotel magazines |
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| a consumer magazine complete with a variety of general interest articles and features published by a retail or other business for readers having demographic characteristics similar to those of consumers with whom it typically does business |
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| a designer catalogue produced to look like a consumer magazine. i.e. Abercrombie and Fitch |
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| ads that appear in magazines and take on the appearance of genuine editorial content, usually a page or more.. i.e. ads about Puerto Rico or other places to travel to |
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| content that reinforces the advertisers message, or at the very least does not negate it |
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| the demand for an advance review of magazines content, with the threat of pulled advertising if dissatisfied with that content |
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| a machine for projecting slides unto a distant surface invented by Muybridge |
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| a physiological phenomenon in which the images our eyes gather are retained in the brain for about 1/24 of a second |
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| George Eastmans easy to use Kodak camera that took 40 photographs a second |
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| a process of recording images on polished metal plates, usually copper, covered with a thin layer of silver iodide emulsion |
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| used translucent paper, what we now call the negative, from which several prints could be made, much more sensitive than the Daguerrotype metal plates |
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| a sort of peep show device |
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| developed by Edwin Porter, tying together two separate but related shots in such a way that they took on a new unified meaning |
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| original movie theaters, it was a nickel to go see a film, hence the name |
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| another name for production companies |
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| a system where studios produced their own films, distributed them through their own outlets and exhibited them in their own theaters |
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| the practice of requiring exhibitors to rent groups of movies, often inferior, to secure a better one… ruled illegal in 1948 Paramount decision |
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| a strategy where they open a movie on a few screens and hope that critical response, film festival success, and good word of mouth reviews from those who do see it will propel its success |
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| Movies that can be described in one line |
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| filmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies |
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| movies that are produced with the full intention of making several sequels |
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| movies that are produced with the full intention of making several sequels |
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| films produced originally for theaters |
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| using digital equipment, usually for its low budget |
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| The sponsor financing of movies to advance a manufacturers product line. i.e the Italian job |
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