Name :- Jankiba Rana
Class :- M.A. SEM 04
Topic:- Impact of News
Paper NO :- 15
Paper :- Mass Communication and Media Studies
ROLL NO :- 09
Year :- 2015 - 2016
Submitted :- Smt S.B.Gardy Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
Short History of Newspapers and Magazines
read of Printing Press
Acta Diurna – Roman
Empire (Julius Ceaser) around 59 BC
Carved in stone or metal: put up at public areas
In China, early
government-produced news sheets, called Tipao circulated
among court officials during the late Han dynasty (second and third centuries
AD).
Gazettes, were a mid-16th century
Venice phenomenon. They were issued on single sheets, folded to form four
pages, and issued on a weekly schedule.
The first newspaper in France
was published in 1631, La Gazette (originally published as Gazette
de France)
The first newspaper in
Portugal, A Gazeta da Restauração, was published in 1641
in Lisbon.
The first Spanish newspaper, Gaceta de
Madrid was published in 1661.
The first successful English
daily, The Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735.
The first successful English
daily, The Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735.
English newspapers in Indian
subcontinent:
In 1766, a British editor,
William Bolts, offered the first ever paper to his fellow countrymen in
Calcutta and helped them establish a printing press.
In 1780, James Augustus Hickey
published Bengal Gazette/General Calcutta Adviser. The size of
that four-page newspaper was 12"x8". Hickey too was against the
Company Government and published internal news of the employees of the Company.
In November 1781, India Gazette
was also introduced; it was pro Government and against Hickey.
1780 The first
newspaper in India was published by James Hicky in January 1780. It was
called the Bengal Gazette and
announced itself as
“a weekly political and commercial
paper open to all parties but
influenced by none”.
Bengal Gazette was a two-sheet
paper measuring 12 inches by 8 inches, most of the space being occupied by
advertisements. Its circulation reached a maximum of 200 copies.
Within six years of Bengal
Gazette, four more weeklies were launched in Kolkata (then
Calcutta)
1782
Madras Courier was launched
1791
Bombay Herald was launched
1792
Bombay Courier was launched in 1792. It published advertisements in English and
Gujarati.
1799
In 1799, the East India administration passed regulations to increase its
control over the press.
1816
The first newspaper under Indian administration appeared in 1816. It was also
called Bengal Gazette and was published by Gangadhar Bhattacharjee.
It was a
liberal paper which advocated the reforms of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Raja Ram Mohan
Roy himself brought out a magazine in Persian called Mirat-ul-Ukhbar
1857
The Uprising of 1857 brought out the divide between Indian owned and British
owned newspapers. The government passed the Gagging Act of 1847 and the
Vernacular Press Act in 1876
1920s and
1930s
Newspapers in this period
started reflecting popular political opinion. While big
English dailies were loyal to
the British government, the vernacular press was
strongly nationalist.
The Leader and Bombay
Chronicle were pro-Congress.
The Servant of India and The
Bombay Chronicle were moderate.
The Bande Mataram of Aurbindo
Ghosh, Kal of Poona and Sakli of Surat were
fiercely nationalist
As more and more Indians
started learning English, many became reporters, editors and
even owners.
The Anglo-Indian press began
to lose ground except in Bombay and Calcutta.
In 1927, industrialist G D
Birla took over Hindustan Times and placed it on a sound financial footing.
In the same year, S Sadanand
started the Free Press Journal, a newspaper for the poor and the middle-class
in Mumbai
MEDIA:
Print Media News
papers :
Audio –visual Television
news:
Audio Radio
:
What does the news have whether it is news paper of a news
Chanel ?
What type of news they generate?


Functions of Media:
Reporting
Common carrier
Acting as the public representatives
Investigation of attacks journalism
Socializing people
Providing political form
Role of Media:
Positive
Creative
Informative
Motivating
Entertaining
News are
very essential part of every one’s life we walk up in morning and we read news
paper we watch news channels but most of the people like to read news paper
daily .
It gives information of surroundings and national, international news
too. It gives awareness and information.

It also
contains both the aspects like hard and sot news:
Though some News has :
Negative Effect
Give Half Truth
Masala News
Discouraging
Crime Encouraging
Gives False
information
Positive Effects of News:
Common man gets latest news update with fraction of seconds:
Helps to exchange information
Helps to bring out hidden talents of people
Lets public takes part in social events
Negative Effects
of News :
Psychological bad effect on
individuals
eg. Violence,
political unrest,
War, injustice
Health issues
Person can constantly live under the
:
Fear , sadness , Anger
Our need from Media:
Positive in Approach
Provide real information
Help in Nation building
How do an Ideal Media should perform:
How do an Ideal Media should perform:
Spread awareness
Should be free from biasness
Should be free from Pressure, Finding Fact
News Media has a power to change :
Our Knowledge
Our Behavior
Our Attitudes
Our Emotions
Our Political views
News has played vital role how do news comes in
front of us ?
How it is categorize:



Latest News:
Date:2/04/2016
Pratyusha Banerjee was an actress and she attempt suicide in every news papers
and Tv news we could find this news but if we look at the language of the
article it differs here in Saurashtra samachar has mentioned that her WHATS APP stats was in Hindi that:
MAR K BHI TUJSE MUH NA MODNA
Its suggest that she was in pain and in psychological term 80% people “cry fo
self” and here clearly it is mentioned that there is involvement of the Bf.
Rahulraj who the reason for her pain.
Date :2/04/2016
Here her condition was mentioned that she was also insulted
her and her relation was not going in smoother way.
Impact on audience:
Sadness depression and gives negative impact
and it depend on individual’s state of mind.
Now a days news papers are giving no negative news