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"Old media" as an idea only ever existed because "new media" does. In the research of Simone Natale, the use of the term "old media" in a survey of books only began to become popular in the late twentieth century once the developments of new media, such as the Internet, became widely available. Natale writes of old media as a social construct ...
16th century BCE – The Phoenicians develop an alphabet. 105 – Cai Lun invents paper. 7th century – Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media. 751 – Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas. 1250 – The quill is used for writing. [15]
[citation needed] Starting in the 1920s, changes in technology again morphed the nature of American journalism as radio and later, television, began to play increasingly important roles. In the late 20th century, much of American journalism merged into big media conglomerates (principally owned by media moguls like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch ...
The Creation of the Media: Political origins of Modern Communications (2004), far ranging history of all forms of media in 19th and 20th century US and Europe; Pulitzer prize excerpt and text search; Stephens, Mitchell. A History of News (3rd ed. 2006) Sterling, Christopher H., ed. Encyclopedia of Journalism (6 vol. 2009) table of contents
The Mandarin-language World Journal, which distributes from San Francisco to Toronto and states a circulation (unaudited) of 350,000. World Journal; its biggest competitor, Sing Tao (181,000 circulation unaudited); and Korea Times (254,000, also unaudited) are owned by international media giants based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Seoul ...
In 1914, the demonstrations certainly garnered a lot of media interest, with The Times reporting on 30 May: An inventor, Dr. A. M. Low, has discovered a means of transmitting visual images by wire. If all goes well with this invention, we shall soon be able, it seems, to see people at a distance. On 29 May, the Daily Chronicle reported:
The roots of the Western media can be traced back to the late 15th century, when printing presses began to operate throughout Western Europe. The emergence of news media in the 17th century has to be seen in close connection with the spread of the printing press, from which the publishing press derives its name. [2]
1933 Foundation of Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report (United States) 1934 Foundation of Partisan Review (United States, appeared until 2003) 1936 Henry Luce founds Life in New York. 1938 the council communist magazine International Council Correspondence changes its name to Living Marxism. In 1942 it becomes New Essays.