Newspapers in English

Today, mass media is generally divided into7 branches. These "seven mass media", in order of their introduction are:

1. Print (books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, etc.) from the late 15th century
2. Recordings  magnetic tapes, cassettes, cartridges, CDs, DVDs) from the late 19th century
3. Cinema from about 1900
4. Radio from about 1910
5. Television from about 1950
6. Internet from about 1990

   7.   Mobile phones from about 2000

Each mass media has its own content types, its own creative artists and technicians, and its own business model. The sixth and seventh media, internet and mobile, are often called collectively as digital media; and the fourth and fifth, radio and TV, as broadcast media.

Newspapers, Types and Formats

There are a wide number of newspaper types and formats, but three in particular tend to be used above all other in the UK. These are broadsheet, Berliner and tabloid.

Some formats seem to have been used by newspapers with particular kinds of content, leading to the formats being associated with the seriousness of the publication.

Broadsheets are generally thought to be the purview of high-quality journalism, but they are also large and cumbersome, unsuited to reading on public transport. The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, as well as The Sunday Times and the Financial Times, are all broadsheet newspapers in the UK by format.

Other papers that fit the high-quality journalism standard of broadsheets, but use a smaller format similar to the tabloid, called the ‘compact’ format, are The Observer, The Times and The Independent.

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Here you are the links to some of the most important and  serious newspapers:

THE GUARDIAN (UK) 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

THE INDEPENDENT(UK)
 http://www.independent.co.uk/

THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)
http://global.nytimes.com/

LOS ANGELES TIMES (USA)
http://www.latimes.com/

BRITISH MEDIA ONLINE.  UK Newspapers: national, local, daily, weekly, plus major magazines and portals.
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm

EL PAÍS IN ENGLISH (Spain)
http://www.elpais.com/english/

Tasks:
1. Read what´s in the news.
2. Listen to: where these people get their news.
http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/41-NewsSource.html
3. Listen  to: what part of the newspaper these people read first.
 http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/42-NewsPart.html
4. Listen to Simon and Todd discuss newspapers.
http://www.elllo.org/english/0401/416-Simon-Paper.htm