SECTION TWO
Intro to Print Media
Issue date: 5/15/02 Section: 100x MM Online
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We'll study newspaper history by grouping changes by eras and wars. We'll look at how newspapers started as a simple medium and evolved into a mass medium with the advent of the Penny Press. Today's equivalents of the Penny Press would be USA Today newspaper or the growth of the World Wide Web.
After a quick look at magazines, newsletters and books we'll look at the future of print in a digital age.
When we go to the movies we'll look at delightful nostalgic look at the Jazz Age of journalism in The Front Page (Walter Matthau/Jack Lemon version). We'll also look at another comedy about newspapers today in The Paper and a serious look at the magazine industry with Shattered Glass.
Test Two will cover the lectures, assignments and movies of Section Two and the textbook chapters on Books, Newspapers and Magazines.
ASSIGNMENTS
GO TO THE MOVIES
