Journalism: A bit of History- from the Old into the New

In the late 1800’s Yellow Journalism became the forerunner of papers- this is due to them being more affordable to everyday people.  This brings to question what are the two main features in yellow journalism? Sensationalism and Investigation- through Sensationalism we see stories that are over dramatized, insincere and often made up and inaccurate. Through investigative journalism there is truth seeking and exposing businesses, corruption or people. In the 1890’s two newspaper tycoons (Pulitzer and Hearst) were in competition for readers. This questions- how Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst contributed to newspapers history? Joseph Pulitzer treated advertising as a form of news with free and plain writing to include maps so immigrants and working class can obtain and be able to understand stories. Pulitzer included a women column, advice pages and stories regarding crime and sex. After William Randolph Hearst bought his paper he took with him Pulitzer’s editors and writers and Hearst was known to hire gangsters to deliver the newspapers. Hearst focused on lurid, sensationalized stories appealing to immigrants with large bold fonts and layout designs, faked stories to boost circulation, and encouraged conflicts to create a story. Hearst felt Journalism was dramatic storytelling and the facts don’t matter. Heart and Pulitzers competition made Yellow journalism a contender for the ‘story-driven model’ which dramatized stories versus Yellow Journalism just the facts This competition in newspapers lead to more tightening on the Federal Antitrust laws as well as the prestigious journalism award the 'Pulitzer Prize.'

A lot has changed since the 1800’s in Journalism with the emergence of technology in 1980’s taking over the hardcopy newspaper by bringing in digital era of newspapers being read on a Tablet or phone instead.  Wire t\services were the first game changer as it relayed news information all over the country with telegraph lines and the through radio to TV and eventually digital/computer technologies. Poses the question - What major challenges does new technology have on the newspaper industry? There are 2 important developments when journalism changed to digital technology - First, in 1980 when the initial newspaper went online and in 1984 when the colors and the look changed dramatically. Technology brought a big change in how people read, obtain and understand the news. It moved from hardcopy papers to TV and Radio and eventually to online marketplace where anyone and anytime in the world can view any country or groups news and information. The fast-paced availability of these online news outlets provides easy persuasion, analysis, entertainment but with challenges. The challenges brought on by online news is accuracy in information being put out there (is it verified/verifiable)and since digital news speeds up news cycles as a constant stream of information makes it harder for the hardcopy newspaper companies that are still out there and the demand is increasing for digital over hardcopy- making hardcopy obsolete as digital reading becomes more and more extinct while technological advances bring in more openness and availability to readers all over the world in convenience.  The younger generations of news/journalists won’t know or remember ever having hardcopy or starting as a simple telegram- digital news gives people the chance to now become their own journalists using their own tech/cameras and editing and YouTube/social media supplying the place to freely post it.