History and importance

1. welcome

2. IMPORTANCE OF NEWS PAPERS
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3. MEDIA
• Communication channels through which
news, entertainment,education,data or
promotional messages are disseminated.
Media includes every broadasting and
narrowcasting medium such as
newspapers,magazines,TV,radio,internet etc.

5. PRINT MEDIA
• News paper
• Magazines

6. WHAT IS NEWS PAPER?
• A newspaper is a serial publication containing
news, other informative articles, and usually
advertising.
• Newspapers are typically published daily or
weekly.
• The news includes political events and
personalities, business and finance , crime,
science and technology,sports,entertainment
etc.

8. NEWSPPER MEETS FOUR CRITERIA
• Publicity- Its contents are reasonably
accessible to the public.
• Periodicity-It is published at regular intervals
• Currency-Its information is as up to date as its
publication schedule allows.
• Universality-It covers a range of topics

9. HISTORY

10. THE BEGINNING
• Handwritten news sheets, government
bulletin, announcements, and single item
news publications preceded the newspaper.
• 1496: Gutenberg invented the first press
• 1690:Boston, the birth, entitled publick
occurences
• 1791:freedom of speech and press;became
center of media.

11. GROWTH
• Freedom of press sparked newspaper frenzy
• 1880:11,314 different newspapers were
recorded in census
• 1910’s: modern newspaper features emerged

12. HISTORY OF NEWSPAPER
• The first successively published title was THE
WEEKLY NEWS OF 1622.It was followed in the
1640’s and 1650’s by a plethora of different
titles in the similar newsbook format.
• The first true newspaper in english was the
London Gazette of 1666 .For a generation it
was the only officially sanctioned
newspaper,though many periodical titles were
in print by the century’s end.

13. • In America the first newspaper appeared in
Boston in 1690,entitled “Publick Occurrences”.
Published without authority, it was
immediately suppressed, its publisher
arrested, and all copies were destroyed.
• America’s The first successful newspaper was
the Boston News-Letter, begun by postmaster
John Campbell in 1704.

14. • By 1814 there were 346 newspapers.
• In the Jacksonian populist 1830’s, advances in
printing and papermaking technology led to
an explosion of newspaper growth, the
emergence of the “Penny Press”;it was now
possible to produce a newspaper that could
be sold for just a cent copy. Previously
newspapers were the province of the wealthy,
literate minority.

15. NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION
• 1930s and 1940s The New york Times and the
Milwaukee journal sponsor programs that are
dedicated to providing newspapers and
curriculam aides to the classroom teacher.
• Now a days about 900 newspaper companies
provide newspapers to schools in their local
areas.This program started in the 1960s and is
called Newspapers In Education(NIE).

16. • NIE program is one in which newspapers are
distributed to schools or other institutions
that conduct educational programs.NIE is
designed to make reading and newspapers a
fun and profitable learning experience ;the
key being fun.

17. WHY USING NEWSPAPERS IN THE CLASSROOMS
• They are inexpensive
• They are readily obtainable.
• They are versatile.
• They can be used for individual or cooperative
activities.
• They are a source of current information.

18. ADVANTAGES
• Newspapers introduce students to the cultural
and linguistic aspects.
• They can be used for individual and group
work.
• The content is updated.
• Learners can internalize a full range of world
background knowledge, language conventions
and vocabulary by exposure through reading.

20. CONCLUSIONS
• The wide selection of online newspapers, being
the digital versions of the printed ones, help
learners have access to the news of the English
Speaking countries at extremely low cost, high
speed and enourmous variety.
• Using news for teaching materials help learners
to improve their reading skills, enrich the
vocabulary, gain some cultural knowledge and be
up-to-date with the current situation in the whole
world.

21. THANKS