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| magazines that publish on the Internet |
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| the people in magazine, newspaper, and book publishing who attend to specific problems in writing such as style, content, and length |
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| a printing technique developed by early Chinese printers, who hand-carved characters and illustrations into a block of wood, applied ink to the block, and then printed copies on multiple sheets of paper. |
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| conflict-oriented journalism |
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| found in metro areas, newspapers that define news primarily as events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms; journalists see their role as observers who monitor their city's institutions and problems |
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| editions of national magazines that tailor ads to different geographic areas |
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| a style of journalism in which news reports begin with the most dramatic or newsworthy info - answering who, what, where, when, why, and how questions at the top of the story - then tail off with less significant details |
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| general-interest magazines |
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| types of magazines that address a wide variety of topics and are aimed at a broad national audience |
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| consensus-oriented journalism |
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| found in small communities, newspapers that promote social and economic harmony by providing community calendars and meeting notices and carrying articles on local schools, social events, town government, property crimes, and zoning issues |
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| national magazines whose advertising is tailored to subscribers and readers according to occupation, class, and zip-code address |
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| news reports that adapt fictional storytelling techniques to nonfictional material; sometimes called new journalism |
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| a formal complaint to have a book removed from a public or school library's collection |
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| a combination of a glossy magazine and retail catalog that is often used to market goods or services to customers or employees |
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| publishing industry personnel who work on the look of a book, making decisions about type style, paper, cover design, and layout |
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| a computer technology that enables an aspiring publisher/editor to inexpensively write, design, lay out, and even print a small newsletter or magazine |
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| in book publishing, the editor who provides authors with feedback, makes suggestions for improvements, and obtains advice from knowledgeable members of the academic community |
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| a large company that owns several papers throughout the country |
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| a nondaily periodical that comprises a collection of articles, stories, and ads |
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| an early type of book in which paperlike sheets were cut and sewed together along the edge, then bound with thin pieces of wood and covered with leather |
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| cheaply produced and low-priced novels that were popular in the US beginning in the 1860s; sometimes identified as pulp fiction. |
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| a period during the Middle Ages when priests and monks advanced the art of bookmaking |
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| a 15th century invention whose movable metallic type technology spawned modern mass communication by creating the first method for mass production; it reduced the size and cost of books, made them the first mass medium affordable to less affluent people, and provided the impetus for the Industrial Revolution, assembly-line production, modern capitalism, and the rise of consumer culture |
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| digital books read on a computer or electronic reading device. |
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| Internet-based publishing houses that design and distribute books for comparatively low prices for authors who want to self-publish a title |
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| a modern style of journalism that distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns; reporters strive to remain neutral toward the issue or event they cover, searching out competing points of view among the sources for a story |
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| in the newspaper industry, an economic arrangement, sanctioned by the government, that permits competing newspapers to operate separate editorial divisions while merging business and production operations |
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| magazine subscriptions that automatically renew on the subscriber's credit card |
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| commercial outlets or brokers, such as United Features and King Features, that contract with newspapers to provide work from well-known political writers, editorial cartoonists, comic-strip artists, and self-help columnists |
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| news accounts that focus on the trials and tribulations of the human condition, often featuring ordinary individuals facing extraordinary challenges |
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| books from the Middle Ages that featured decorative, colorful designs and illustrations on each page |
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| in the book industry, a marketing strategy that involves publishing a topical book quickly after a major event occurs |
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| type of journalism that involves analyzing and explaining key issues or events and placing them in a broader historical or social context |
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| a technology introduced in the nineteenth century that enabled printers to set type mechanically using a typwriter-style keyboard |
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| low-priced paperback books sold mostly on racks in drugstores, supermarkets, and airports, as well as in bookstores |
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| technical books that target various occupational groups and are not intended for the general consumer market |
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| reporters who used a style of early-twentieth century investigative journalism that emphasized a willingness to crawl around in society's much to uncover a story |
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| the space left over in a newspaper for news content after all the ads are placed |
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| a technology that enabled books to be printed from photographic plates rather than metal casts, reducing the cost of color and illustrations and eventually permitting computers to perform typesetting |
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| self-published magazines produced on personal computer programs or on the Internet |
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| in the book industry, editors who seek out and sign authors to contracts |
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| commercial organizations, such as the AP, that share news stores and the info by relaying them around the country and the world, originally via telegraph and now via satellite transmission |
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| books made with cheap paper covers, introduced in the US in the mid-1800s |
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| treated animal skin that replaced papyrus as an early pre-paper substance on which to document written language |
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| an early dominant style of American journalism distinguished by opinion newspapers, which generally argued one political point of view or pused the plan of the particular party that subsidized the paper |
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| the total number of people who come into contact with a single copy of a magazine |
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| newspapers that, because of technological innovations in printing, were able to drop their price to one cent beginning in the 1830s, thereby making papers affordable to working and emerging middle classes and enabling newspapers to become a genuine mass medium |
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| the use of photos to document events and people's lives |
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| a term used to describe many late-nineteenth century popular paperbacks and dime novels, which were constructed of cheap machine-made pulp material |
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| dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other reference manuals related to particular professions or trades |
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| national magazines whose content is tailored to the interests of different geographic areas |
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| in the book industry, selling the rights to a book for use in other media forms, such as a mass market paperback, a CD-ROM, or the basis for a movie screenplay |
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| newspapers that feature bizarre human-interest stories, gruesome murder tales, violent accident accounts, unexplained phenomena stories, and malicious celebrity gossip |
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| books made for the el-hi (elementary and high school) and college markets |
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| the most visible book industry segment featuring hardbound and paperback books aimed at general readers and sold at bookstores and other retail outlets |
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| radical newspapers, run on shoestring budgets, that question mainstream political policies and conventional values; the term usually refers to a journalism movement of the 1960s |
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| the segment of the book industry that publishes scholarly books in specialized areas |
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| a handmade paper made from treated animal skin, used in the Gutenberg Bibles |
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| a newspaper style or era that peaked in crime news, large headlines, and serious reports that exposed corruption, particularly in business and government |
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| one of the first substances to hold written language and symbols; obtained from plant reeds found along the Nile |
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