Mass Media

Newspapers

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.

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 prod uced news sheets, during the late

Han dynasty (second and third centuries AD).

Between 713 734and , the Chin ese Tang Dynasty published go

vernment news; it was handwritt en on silk and read by governme nt officials.

Printing press was invented in the15th century in Germany

The first Russian printed newspaper was introduced in 1702 by Peter I. It was "Vedomosti”

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.

Popular(Tabloids)

Local

Quality(Broadsheets)

Weekly

National

Daily

Newspapers

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.

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.

The most popular newspaper in

Cheboksary is “Pro gorod” because it is

delivered free.

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.

Where are the broadsheets and tabloids?

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.

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!