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Many in both camps believe that newspapers will increasingly leave breaking news to online and broadcast media, with print publications focused on comment and analysis.

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Rising literacy, dense populations in urban centers, and new technology all led to the popularization of newspapers as a medium for spreading news.

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Newspapers also face increased competition from internet sites for classified ads, especially for jobs, real estate, and cars, the advertising of which has long been a key source of newspaper revenue.

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Publishers of commercial newspapers strive for higher circulation, so that advertising in their newspaper becomes more effective, allowing the newspaper to attract more advertisers and to charge more for the service.

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Classified advertising is a form of paid advertising which is particularly common in newspapers and other periodicals.

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Newspapers use photographs to illustrate stories; they use editorial cartoonists, usually to illustrate writing that is opinion, rather than news.

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Previous methods, such as town criers, public postings, or word of mouth, gradually faded away as newspapers became more readily available.

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The future of newspapers is uncertain, with overall readership slowly declining in most developed countries due to increasing competition from television and the Internet.

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Many publishers are developing online newspapers to supplement their print editions.

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Newspapers are usually printed on inexpensive, off-white paper known as newsprint.

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Newspapers are also seen as a public good and play a role in maintaining an informed base of citizens, which is vital in a democracy.

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Saturday and where they exist Sunday, editions of daily newspapers tend to be larger, include more specialized sections and advertising inserts, and cost more.

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Circulation is not necessarily the same as copies sold, since some copies or newspapers are distributed without cost.

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Large metropolitan newspapers with expanded distribution networks such as the New York Times and the Washington Post can fill the role of de facto national newspapers.

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General-interest newspapers are usually journals of current news.

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Newspapers, however, have played an important role in the exercise of freedom of expression in the modern world.

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By the beginning of the twenty-first century in the United States, a greater number of newspapers (and all of the largest ones) were run by large media corporations.

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Newspapers also offer corporations or wealthy individuals a voice on public matters and allow them a chance to be heard by many people on whatever matter they deem important through the use of editorials.

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Owning a newspaper (or chain of newspapers) is highly prestigious and seen as a sign of legitimacy for major broadcasting or publishing empires such as that of Rupert Murdoch.

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To help their titles stand out on newsstands, some newspapers are printed on colored newsprint.

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Online newspapers allow for more frequent updating (or publishing) of news, and provide an avenue for instantaneous conversation about the events as they occur.

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Editorials serve as the mouthpiece for the ownership or editorial boards of newspapers.

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The first newspapers appeared as a daily news posting known as Acta Diurna (Daily Events) in Rome in 59 B.C.E.

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Many ways to classify newspapers exist, including frequency of publication, language, region served, and topics covered.

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The future of newspapers may have serious ramifications for human society.

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Smaller and easier to hold than broadsheets, but presenting serious journalism rather than traditional tabloid content, they appear to have drawn some younger readers who are otherwise abandoning newspapers.

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Most newspapers make nearly all their money from advertising; the income from the customer’s payment at the newsstand is small in comparison.

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Many larger newspapers are now using more aggressive random fact checking to further improve the chances that false information will be found before it is printed.

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Newspapers as brands still hold tremendous sway with the public.

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The first printed newspapers appeared in the seventeenth century, and their circulation increased until the late twentieth century, when developments in technology, especially the internet, posed major challenges to its business model.

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Online newspapers must abide by the same legalities as do their sister publications.

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One growth area is the distribution of free daily newspapers, which are not reflected in the above circulation data, and which grew 16 percent in 2003.

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Previous methods, such as town criers, public postings, or word of mouth, gradually faded away as newspapers became more readily available.

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There has also been an emerging class of "international newspapers."

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The first printed newspapers appeared in the seventeenth century, and their circulation increased until the late twentieth century, when developments in technology, especially the internet, posed major challenges to its business model.

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