Exploring Local and International Newspapers 报刊选读 教学课件.pptVIP

* Exploring Local and International Newspapers Home country: China USA USA USA/Europe Hong Kong Sections Front page Nation Comment World Business Life Sports Front page Money Sports Life Forum Front page World News:Asia World News Life Style Opinion In Depth BusinessFinance Front page World News Views Culture Sport Business Front page China Asia World Opinion Insight Business City Sport More factual? More opinionated? Both? Underlined Italics Nothing In general, facts can be found on the outer pages of the newspaper and opinions on the inner pages. *Published? Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily What is a Newspaper? A daily or weekly publication brings news on different topics of general interest to the public in a specific geographic areas plays a role in commerce through the the advertisements provides readers with information of practical value, such as television schedules, weather maps and listings of stock prices provides a source of entertainment through its stories and through such features as comic strips and crossword puzzles. provides citizens with information on government and politics Source: History of Newspapers by M. Stephens More history... 1450s: Printing press invented by Gutenberg 1470s-1490s: Pamphlets, newsbooks, news ballads in Europe – but they were not newspapers 1500s: Avisi or gazette in Venice – printed and distributed weekly – short new items printed under the name of the city and the date 1600s: Many countries have their own printed news sheets.-Austria and Germany (1614-1617), Holland (1618), England (1621), France (1631) 1600s: The demand for news increases and there is pressure to get enough news items weekly to publish. At first no editors but later some took responsibility to make the news more readable. 1670: First use of the word newspaper in English. 1690: The first newspaper is printed in Boston, America. 1800s: The first newspapers arrive in China * *