A modern newspaper has four main functions: to inform, serve, entertain and interpret. inform - to report news with accuracy and interest serve - to provide information such as weather, markets and shipping. entertain - humorous items such as comics, Cartoons, columnists and bizarre stories. interpret - background information and a summary to help readers understand events and their implications.
I worked at a newspaper in the early 1970s as the National Advertising Secretary. I had typical secretarial duties, such as typing, filing, keeping records of the total lineage of the National advertising (that which was not local ads, basically) we received, ordering National ads to go into the newspaper, proofreading the ads before publishing, and that sort of work. Each department had a secretary with similar duties to mine. I know newspapers have moved into a more modern age since I was working there, with a lot more computerization in each department. I don't think they have to make the metal advertising things (I have forgotten what those were called!) that were used to get the ad copy put onto the newspaper pages any more. (Those old things piled up in the mailroom, where they were stored.) All advertising comes picture-ready now, making storage space a non-issue. Other jobs at this newspaper (a morning paper 6 days a week, an afternoon paper 6 days a week, a Sunday newspaper, and a Sunday "magazine" accompaniment for the paper) were: 1. the Secretaries mentioned earlier; 2. Advertising Salesmen, who called on the local merchants to sell ad space in the paper; 3. Advertiser and Journal layouts ("dummies") were the two people who lay out the ads onto the dummy sheets of the newspaper, fitting the advertising space onto the news pages; 4. Several Mailroom persons (their jobs included obtaining "tear-sheets" for the advertisers and getting them mailed out to verify ads running correctly, distributing incoming mail to the various departments' personnel); 5. Editors, who wrote articles that ran in the paper, as well as reading over and correcting/editing articles of the; 6. Junior Staff Writers (all of these people go out of the building during the day to get the articles and pictures that run in the paper); 7. photographers who go out during the day to take pictures of important events, develop those pictures, and write up simple paragraphs to describe what is happening; 8. Printing Pressmen do the work of getting the newspaper put together, printed, sent to proof-reading, errors corrected and re-printed, papers bundled for distribution, then clean up their area to begin again first thing next morning; 9. the Sunday Magaziine Editor, who was responsible for all parts of that publication, including the advertising, photos, articles, proof-reading, etc.; 10. Newspaper Delivery Personnel, who use their own vehicles to deliver the newspaper to all the subscribers. There were also janitorial people, but I think they worked for a different employer. That is as far as my memory will take me, concerning personnel of the newspaper, and the sort of work they did there. I hope it helps you find what you are looking forl
Newspapers are published to inform people about local, national and international events and the issues relating to these. They also try to influence public opinion as to what should be done about things that are happening by skewing how they report events and by commentaries. Finally they are a forum from which commercial products may be advertised.
A simple glance across newspaper headlines for a specific reason, looking for specific keywords related to the information you want, is not heavy reading. The kind of reading used for this purpose is skimming.
The Probability of NOT reading newspaper a is .8 The Probability of NOT reading Newspaper b is .84 The probability of NOT reading Newspaper c is .86 Therefore, .8*.84*.86=0.57792=57.792%
A purpose of a piece of writing about printing and writing would be to learn about the process if you want to look into being a writer for a newspaper.
The political viewpoint of a newspaper can be learned by reading the editorial page.
It will have been the case that she will have been reading the newspaper when you arrive.
figure out your purpose for reading.
Anything you wish
You cannot really walk with the newspaper,but just click on the newspaper and read it,and on other people's computers,your penguin will be reading the newspaper!
Your purpose for reading
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The average person reads a newspaper for about 25 to 30 minutes.
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