What are the characteristics of newspapers?

1, which can be read at any time, without time limitation, and will not miss the information reported at the specified time like TV or radio programs;

2, circulated to each other, the number of readers can be several times that of printing;

Even people with poor reading or understanding ability can spend more time absorbing news from newspapers.

With the rise of Internet, the circulation of online newspapers is stronger than that of traditional printed newspapers.

5. Timeliness, the most important feature that distinguishes newspapers from books and periodicals, also known as news and timeliness. In a sense, fast is the value of newspapers. The political, economic and social situation at home and abroad on that day can be reflected in the newspapers on the same day or the next day, and some news time difference is only a few hours.

Classification:

1. Publication period: daily newspaper, weekly newspaper, biweekly newspaper or longer newspaper;

2. Publication time: daily newspaper, morning paper, morning paper and evening paper;

3. Political stance: left newspaper and right newspaper;

4. Charge or not: charge newspapers and free newspapers;

5. Media forms: printed newspapers, online newspapers, electronic newspapers and electronic pocket books;

6. Attention: educational newspapers, military newspapers, student newspapers, academic newspapers, financial newspapers, agricultural newspapers, tourism newspapers, etc.

Extended data:

As for the function of newspapers, we can draw different views from different angles. For example, from the perspective of the party newspaper, the role of the newspaper is just as Mao Zedong said: "The role and strength of the newspaper lies in that it can make the party's program, line, principles and policies, tasks and working methods contact the masses most quickly and extensively."

Bernard Voyenne, a French journalist, summed up the functions of newspapers, which are acceptable in all aspects: the main reporting function, the ensuing debate function (that is, the function of spreading opinions) and the incidental entertainment function.

Development stage:

(1) Electronic version stage, that is, all contents on the Internet are copies of paper newspapers.

(2) Hyperlink stage, that is, through hyperlinks with specific colors on the Internet, readers can jump from one website to another at any time to seek the required information. At the same time, BBS, mailing list and other services are also set up on the websites of various online newspapers for the audience to publish information online.

(3) In the multimedia stage, due to the limitation of technical level and equipment perfection, it will take some time for online newspapers to reach the complete multimedia stage.

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