Rewriting the Newspaper: The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism

Applying Porter's methodology of the well-known five competitive forces to analyze the nature of competition, this article seeks to demonstrate that the competitive advantages obtained by the companies are a function of the structure of the industry and the strategies developed by the intervening companies. To this end, we analyze the Peruvian print journalism sector, that of non-specialized newspapers, exponents of a formal style of presentation of information and aimed at traditional readers, a segment made up of: El Comercio, Expreso, La Republica and La Nación. The results show that, of the five competitive forces, the most relevant for the segment studied are the high barriers to entry, mainly due to the high levels of investment and know-how required; the permanent possibility of substitution by television and radio; and the bargaining power of clients, exercised by distribution agents and advertisers. It can be said that there are two aspects on which the newspapers analyzed have developed their competitive advantages: the barriers created and the positioning achieved.

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The Practice of Freelance Print Journalism

The Creative System in Action ◽

10.1057/9781137509468_8 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 100-112

Author(s):

Sarah Coffee

Keyword(s):

Print Journalism

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The Internet and Social Media as Sources

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.225 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Aubrey Bloomfield ◽

Sean Jacobs

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Information Sharing ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Historical Research ◽

Online Resources ◽

The Internet ◽

Print Journalism ◽

Rough Draft ◽

Online Sources ◽

Internet And Social Media

The Internet and social media increasingly are becoming sources about the African past and present in ways that will influence to some extent how history will be learnt and the form that methods of historical research will take. Social media have increasingly dislodged print journalism as “the first rough draft of history” and tended to democratize and hasten information sharing and communication. Historians are working through difficult debates about the Internet as a source archive, the usability of websites, and related matters. The debate over online resources and their use in historical and other studies on one level remains unresolved. Nevertheless, online sources add another rich layer to narratives, stories, and perspectives that are already being recorded or told, and in this regard they will add to the storehouse of empirical data to be crunched by future historians.

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Print Journalism in the Era of Electronic Media

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s2p48 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Ján Višňovský

Keyword(s):

Electronic Media ◽

Print Journalism

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Look Who's Talking! Islamic Discourse in the Chechen Wars

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905990600720328 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 237-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Scott Radnitz

Keyword(s):

Public Discourse ◽

Television News ◽

Public And Private ◽

Print Journalism ◽

The Public ◽

News Broadcasts ◽

Psychological Warfare ◽

The Media ◽

Radio Free Europe ◽

Chechen Wars

In any contemporary conflict, the war of ideas may be just as important as the war on the battlefield. Throughout history, propaganda has been used as a tool of psychological warfare. The prevalence of technology makes the mass media an ever more vital tool in spreading one's message, both to combatants and throughout the world. The case of the Chechen wars demonstrates the importance both sides placed on publicity in the course of fighting. In addition to the use of print journalism, the Chechen wars witnessed the employment of television news broadcasts, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Internet as a means to spread messages. Given the importance of the media, the public and private discourse by the combatants has been seen as crucial to their cause. The language of Islam carries a set of widely shared symbols, many related to war, that can be used to manipulate public opinion. This article will analyze how Islamic language was used in the two Russian invasions of Chechnya in the 1990s (1994–1996, 1999–2002). It analyzes three pairs of variables: Russian and Chechen public discourse, especially regarding the language of Islam; Chechen public and Chechen private discourse; and the discourse of both sides in the first war compared to the second war.

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