Press and Public: Who Reads What, When, Where, and Why in American Newspapers / Edition 2

by Leo Bogart

Overview

This book reviews the challenges that face American newspapers at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of circulation losses for many dailies and several decades of accelerating social change. It describes how content of newspapers is changing in the context of a discussion of the nature of news.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805804317
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/1989
Series:	Routledge Communication Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Newspapers in Transition. The Challenge to Newspapers. The Business of Newspapers. The Audience for Newspapers. The Evolution of Reading Habits. Living With Newspapers. What's in the Paper? News, the Newspaper, and Television. Newspaper Editors and Their Readers. What Do Readers Read? Marketing and Journalism.