The crisis

Professor of media economics Axel Zerdick remarked to a Frankfurt, Germany, newspaper: “The crisis is not quite as bad as most journalists believe.” The chief editor of a German daily’s local section echoed that view, observing: “The regional [newspaper] is still going strong.”

La sociedad sigue hambrienta de información

La sociedad sigue hambrienta de información. Axel Zerdick, profesor de Economía Mediática, hizo este comentario a un rotativo de la ciudad alemana de Frankfurt: “La crisis no es tan grave como cree la

mayoría de los periodistas”. Coincide con esta opinión el redactor jefe de la sección local de un diario alemán, quien dijo: “La [prensa] regional mantiene su pujanza

Ever-shrinking world

Finding enough news is not a problem in many places in our ever-shrinking world. “The difficulty lies more in selecting from a vast and never-ending torrent of news,” according to the editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Hay noticias

En muchos lugares de este mundo —cada vez más pequeño— hay noticias de sobra. “Lo difícil es realizar una buena selección de entre el inagotable torrente informativo”, dicen los directores del Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Meantime

In the meantime, news itself traveled ever faster as the telegraph began to come into common use in the 1840’s, typewriters in the 1870’s, and the telephone at about the same time.

Las noticias

Las  noticias empezaron a viajar con más rapidez al difundirse en la década de 1840 el uso del telégrafo. En la década de 1870, el empleo de la máquina de escribir y del teléfono

Vital Contributing Inventions

Vital Contributing Inventions. The newspaper business would not have been possible without important inventions, especially Johannes Gutenberg’s method of printing with movable type. Further inventions made newspaper production practical and affordable. In the 1860’s, for example, the web rotary press made it possible to print on a continuous roll of paper rather than on separate sheets. Shortly afterward, the Linotype machine was used to compose metal type into pages for printing. Then, in the latter half of the 20th century, computer typesetting replaced costly hand work.