Week 3 Lecture; Print Journalism

Print journalism, though still a widely used communication medium via channels such a newspapers and magazines, has a questionable future as we move forward into the digital age. Readers are beginning to beginning to adopt the new technological based forms such as blogs, e-newspapers and magazines and receive faster and more personalized information via social media platforms such as facebook and twitter. Despite this technological migration, it is still of great importance to understand the processes, and layouts of print journalism as it gives journalists a sound theoretical understanding of how we read and interact with media. The traditional print media layout follows a basic upside-down triangle layout with the most important information at the top and filters down the 'fluff' information and stories at the bottom. Interestingly, the typical print media hierarchy follows a similar trend with the head of the organization standing at the top and filters information and directions for staff down the trend creation a more traditional looking triangular diagram.