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UK newspapers can generally be split into two distinct categories, the more serious and intellectual newspapers, usually referred to as the broadsheets due to their large size, and sometimes known collectively as "the quality press", newspapers, generally known as tabloids, and collectively as "the popular press", which have tended to focus more on celebrity coverage and human interest stories rather than political reporting or overseas news. The tabloids in turn have been divided into the more sensationalist mass market titles, or "red tops", such as The Sun and The Mirror, and the middle-market papers,
The Daily Express and The Daily Mail.
The Independent and The Times have changed in recent years to a compact format, not much bigger than that used by the tabloids. The Guardian moved in September 2005 to what is described as a "Berliner" format, slightly larger than a compact. Its Sunday stablemate The Observer has since followed suit.
Other Sunday broadsheets, including The Sunday Times, which tend to have a large amount of supplementary sections, have kept their larger sized format. The national Sunday titles usually have a different layout and style to their weekly sister papers, and are produced by separate journalistic and editorial staff.
All the major UK newspapers currently have websites, some of which provide free access. The Times and The Sunday Times have a paywall requiring payment on a per-day or per-month basis for non-subscribers. The Financial Times business daily also has limited access for non-subscribers.
Most towns and cities in the UK have at least one local newspaper, such as the Evening Post in Bristol and The Echo in Cardiff. They are not known nationally for their journalism in the way that (despite much syndication) city-based newspapers in the USA are (e.g. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe). An exception to this was the well-regarded Manchester Guardian, which dropped the "Manchester" from its name (1959) and relocated its main operations to London (1964). The Guardian Media Group produced a Mancunian paper, the Manchester Evening News until 2010 when the MEN and its other local newspapers in the Greater Manchester area were sold to Trinity Mirror.
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One day people will give up newspapers. Nevertheless some of us try to put off unavoidable. People subscribe to different newspapers every year but their reading habits continue to develop and change.
Let’s be honest. Who has got time for daily papers nowadays? With our busy morning schedules, we hardly manage to pick it up from the mail box and put it in the house. It doesn’t mean that we are not interested in the news. We just keep up with ... Read more
They run nine national TV services providing entertainment, news, current affairs and arts coverage for the whole of the UK.
Mass media is one of the most characteristic features of modern civilization. People are united into one global community with the help of mass media. People can learn about what is happening in the world very fast using mass media. The mass media include newspapers, magazines, radio and television. The earliest kind of mass media was newspaper. The first newspaper was a Roman handwritten newssheet called “Acta Diurna” started in 59 B.C. Magazines appeared in 1700′s.
They developed from newspapers and booksellers’ catalogues. Radio and TV appeared only in the 20th century.
But, to tell you the truth, today’s teens are not really interested in any traditional media. Television, radio and newspapers are becoming less and less popular. Teenagers don’t read newspapers. Instead they watch the news summarized on the Internet or TV. The only newspapers that are read are the cheaper tabloids.
Nevertheless, newspapers are worth buying! They are a daily source of news, education and fun that no home should be without. In fact, every home should have at least 3 different newspapers a day to get a balanced opinion of world events. Also, buying newspapers you’re doing your bit for the local economy. As for tabloids, sometimes they come up with good stories. Just imagine the political scandals that would go unnoticed without reporters.
A variety of print media and electronic media of different forms of ownership are operating in Belarus. Foreign media are widely represented in the national media space, too.
Printed press is available mainly in the Belarusian and Russian languages, though there are some newspapers in English, Polish, Ukrainian and German.
The most influential newspapers include “Belarus Segodnya”, “Respublika”, “Belarusy i rynok”, “Belgazeta”, “Svobodnye novosty”. Local editions of major Russian newspapers “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and “Argumenty i Fakty” are very popular in Belarus, too.
Nine national news agencies, including seven private ones, operate in Belarus.
The BelTA News Agency is the country’s biggest news agency, having the correspondent network in all the regions of the country.
Every day BelTA produces and distributes 150-170 news items to highlight the most important events in the political, social, economic, cultural, and sport life of Belarus, news about actions and decisions of the country’s authorities, about international relations and contacts.
Besides the local news agencies,Russia’s ITAR-TASS and Prime-TASS news agencies have their offices inMinsk. The correspondents of the leading world agencies Reuters [roiterz] and Associated Press also work inMinsk.
There are many radio broadcast stations and television broadcast stations in Belarus. Though, nowadays we are not interested in listening to the radio. The target audience of the Belarusradio station are foreigners interested in local events. The radio station airs programs not only in Belarusian and Russian, but also in English, German, Polish, French and Spanish.
There are 5 national TV broadcasters in Belarus. Today the broadcasting covers more than 60 countries. The channel is available to viewers from Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and North America. The channel also provides online broadcasting on the Internet. Over 100 international channels, including Euronews, BBC, Eurosport are broadcasted via cable TV.
The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and the Law “On Mass Media” constitutes the legal basis of the media activity inBelarus.
The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus guarantees the freedom of thought, belief and expression, prohibits the monopolization of the media and censorship.
The Law “On Mass Media” formalizes the basic principles of mass media’s activity: accuracy, equality, respect for human rights and freedoms, diversity of views; protection of morals; observance of the norms of journalist’s professional ethics. But often the law is broken.
British mass media include numerous radio stations, television channels, different newspapers and magazines – from media owners.
National newspapers in the UK were traditionally divided by format, between serious, intelligent, quality newspapers – broadsheets - and the sensational, popular or red-top tabloids. Several of the broadsheet newspapers have now changed to tabloid or Berliner formats. Even so, the difference in reputation between the two types still remains.
Broadsheets and ‘broadsheet style’ newspapers (serious ones but in Berliner or tabloid format) are The Daily Telegraph, The Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/, The Sunday Times,The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/, The Observer, The Independent. Tabloids are The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/, The Daily Star, The People, The Daily Express.
The BBC has won the reputation for impartiality (беспристрастие) and objectivity in news reporting. It has been providing regular TV broadcasts since 1936.
Speaking about my personal preferences on TV, I wouldn’t say a lot, as I’m not a TV fan. But some of my peers still watch TV, often tuning into a particular season of TV show or sporting event like football. The members of my family also demonstrate great diversity in their tastes. My mother enjoys watching lifestyle programmes, talk shows, soaps, drama and sitcoms. My father prefers news and sports programmes. Sometimes I watch music programmes.
You would think that teens would be adopting the latest new media crazes like Twitter. Apparently, that’s not the case. They see no point in using Twitter. Most teens use “Vkontakte”, “Facebook” for social networking, they search and research topics with Google, watch videos on YouTube, and download music and films from file-sharing sites, watch films on-line. Teens use their smart phones as a source of information, for sharing music files with their friends using Bluetooth, since the service is free.
Today’s teenagers have grown up surrounded by technology and the Internet, so naturally they’re not going to be as interested in old media as the older generations are.
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