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{{Short description|Mass media institutions before the Digital Age}}
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'''Old media''', or '''legacy media''',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-slow-death-of-legacy-media-2016-10 | title=The slow death of legacy media | publisher=Business Insider | date=10 October 2016 | first=Jeff | last=Desjardins | access-date=21 December 2018 }}</ref> are the ] institutions that elvis puzza predominated prior to the ]; particularly ], ]s, ]s, ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB111643067458336994 |url-status=live |title=How Old Media Can Survive in a New World |date=23 May 2005 |website=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327071554/https://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB111643067458336994-dZdpfVsBBc8Y17yRcFtFhF_8YWk_20060522.html?mod=blogs |archive-date=27 March 2008 |access-date=2017-04-23 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan |last=Logan |first=Robert K. |chapter=The Changing Figure/Ground Relation with the 'New Media' |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8RhVp7B5uAC&pg=PA8 |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2010 |page=8 |oclc=764542063 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Peterson">{{cite book |title=Anthropology & Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium |last=Peterson |first=Mark Allen |orig-year=2003 |year=2008 |page=170 |chapter=The Ethnography of Media Production |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wr5EX7kuvY0C&pg=PA170 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-57181-278-0 |oclc=823761828 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> '''Old media''', or '''legacy media''',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-slow-death-of-legacy-media-2016-10 | title=The slow death of legacy media | publisher=Business Insider | date=10 October 2016 | first=Jeff | last=Desjardins | access-date=21 December 2018 }}</ref> are the ] institutions that dominated prior to the ]; particularly ], ]s, ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB111643067458336994 |url-status=live |title=How Old Media Can Survive in a New World |date=23 May 2005 |website=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327071554/https://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB111643067458336994-dZdpfVsBBc8Y17yRcFtFhF_8YWk_20060522.html?mod=blogs |archive-date=27 March 2008 |access-date=2017-04-23 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan |last=Logan |first=Robert K. |chapter=The Changing Figure/Ground Relation with the 'New Media' |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8RhVp7B5uAC&pg=PA8 |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2010 |page=8 |isbn=978-1-4331-1126-6 |oclc=764542063 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Peterson">{{cite book |title=Anthropology & Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium |last=Peterson |first=Mark Allen |orig-year=2003 |year=2008 |page=170 |chapter=The Ethnography of Media Production |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wr5EX7kuvY0C&pg=PA170 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-57181-278-0 |oclc=823761828 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref>


Old media is also called '''traditional media'''.
Old media institutions are centralized and communicate with one-way technologies to a (generally anonymous) mass audience.<ref name="Peterson"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village |last=Becker |first=Barbara |last2=Wehner |first2=Josef |editor-last=Ess |editor-first=Charles |editor2-last=Sudweeks |editor2-first=Fay |year=2001 |page=81 |chapter=Electronic Networks and Civil Society |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7fpSZ_37UQC&pg=PA81 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-79145-016-1 |oclc=879232423 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> ] computer technologies are ] and comparatively decentralized; they enable people to ] with one another.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schorr |first=Angela |editor-last=Schorr |editor-first=Angela |editor2-last=Schenk |editor2-first=Michael |editor3-last=Campbell |editor3-first=William |year=2003 |title=Communication Research and Media Science in Europe: Perspectives for Research and Academic Training in Europe's Changing Media Reality |chapter=Interactivity: The New Media Use Option—State of the Art |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3h9mRJ-YSQAC&pg=PA57 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |page=57 |oclc=954099068 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The defining ] of the Information Age is the ].


Old media institutions are centralized and communicate with one-way technologies to a generally anonymous mass audience.<ref name="Peterson"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village |last1=Becker |first1=Barbara |last2=Wehner |first2=Josef |editor-last=Ess |editor-first=Charles |editor2-last=Sudweeks |editor2-first=Fay |year=2001 |page=81 |chapter=Electronic Networks and Civil Society |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7fpSZ_37UQC&pg=PA81 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-79145-016-1 |oclc=879232423 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> By definition, it is often contrasted with ], which are typically computer or smartphone-based media that are ] and comparatively decentralized, enabling people to ] with one another peer-to-peer or through ] platforms,<ref>{{cite book |last=Schorr |first=Angela |editor-last=Schorr |editor-first=Angela |editor2-last=Schenk |editor2-first=Michael |editor3-last=Campbell |editor3-first=William |year=2003 |title=Communication Research and Media Science in Europe: Perspectives for Research and Academic Training in Europe's Changing Media Reality |chapter=Interactivity: The New Media Use Option—State of the Art |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3h9mRJ-YSQAC&pg=PA57 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |page=57 |isbn=978-3-11-017216-4 |oclc=954099068 |access-date=2017-04-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> with mass use and availability through the Internet.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McQuail |first=Denis |title=McQuail's Mass Communication Theory |publisher=Sage |year=1983 |isbn=978-1-84920-291-6 |edition=6th |location=London |pages=136–138}}</ref>
== Advent of new media ==
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The advent of new communication technology (NCT) has brought forth a set of opportunities and challenges for conventional media.<ref>Garrison, B., 1996. Successful Strategies for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.</ref> The presence of new media and the Internet in particular, has posed a challenge to conventional media, especially the printed newspaper.<ref>Domingo, D. & A. Heinone. 2008. "Weblogs and Journalism: A Typology to Explore the Blurring Boundaries." Nordicom Review, 29 (1): 3-15. )</ref> Analysts{{which|date=April 2017}} in industrial organizations and businesses are of the view that the U.S. newspaper industry is suffering through what could be its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.<ref>Barthelemy, S., M. Bethell, T. Christiansen, A. Jarsvall & K. Koinis. 2011. "http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/documents/WorldNewuigsmediaInnovationsStudy-CapstoneWorkshopSpring2011-ABRIDGED.pdf)</ref> Advertising revenues are tumbling due to the severe economic downturn, while readership habits are changing as consumers turn to the Internet for free news and information.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} Some major newspaper chains{{which|date=April 2017}} are burdened by heavy debts. As in the past, major newspapers have declared bankruptcy as several big city papers shut down, lay off reporters and editors, impose pay reductions, cut the size of the physical newspaper, or turn to Web-only publication (Kirchhoff, 2009). The new media have also affected the way newspapers get and circulate their news. Since 1999, almost 90% of daily newspapers in the United States have been actively using online technologies to search for articles and most of them also create their own news websites to reach new markets.<ref>Domingo, D. & A. Heinone. 2008. "Weblogs and Journalism: A Typology to Explore the Blurring Boundaries." Nordicom Review, 29 (1): 3-15. )</ref> The main phenomenons of cost-cutting are bureau closure, staff reduction, increase in freelancing, stringers, and citizen journalists, reduction of printing costs, increase in advertising space, cuts in logistics thereby changing scope of stories, cuts in resources, office closure, remote/mobile work environments, platform switch, merging and consolidation and closure. It mainly converts physical news to digital news.


== Types of old media<ref>{{Cite web |title=Traditional Media vs New Media |url=https://www.webfx.com/digital-marketing/learn/traditional-media-vs-new-media/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=WebFX |language=en-US}}</ref> ==
== Challenges faced ==
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Some observers believe that the challenges faced by conventional media, especially newspapers, has to do with the perfect storm of the global economic crisis, dwindling readership and advertising dollars, and the inability of newspapers to monetize their online efforts.<ref>Yap, B. 2009. "Time running out for newspapers." The Malaysian Insider. Retrieved 31 October 2010 from http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/brianyap/28538-time-running-out-for-newspapers.</ref> Newspapers, especially in the West and the US in particular, have lost the lion's share of classified advertisement to the Internet. The situation worsened when a depressed economy forced more readers to cancel their newspaper subscriptions, and business firms to cut their advertising budget as part of the overall cost-cutting measurements. As a result, closures of newspapers, bankruptcy, job cuts and salary cuts are widespread.<ref name="mysinchew.com">Mahmud, S. 2009. "Is the newspaper industry at death's door?" Retrieved 30 October 2009 from: http://www.mysinchew.com/node/24415?tid=14.Straits Times. 22 October 2008.</ref> This has made some representatives of the US newspaper industry seek some sort of bailout from the government by allowing U.S. newspapers to recoup taxes they paid on profits earlier this decade to help offset some of their current losses. This is what they put forward to the Joint Committee of Congress (The Star Online, September 2009). Accusations are being hurled at search engines giants by publishers such as Sir David Bell, who categorically accused Google and Yahoo of "stealing" the contents of newspapers. A similar allegation came from media mogul Rupert Murdoch in early April 2009. "Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked the News Corp Chief.<ref name="mysinchew.com"/> Likewise, Sam Zell, owner of the Tribune Company that publishes the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun claimed it was the newspapers in America who allowed Google to steal their contents for nothing, but asked without the contents what would Google do, and how profitable would Google be?<ref name="mysinchew.com"/>
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== Old Media Vs. New Media ==
==See also==
Differences:
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# '''Cost-effectiveness:''' Digital media is cheaper<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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# '''Interactivity and engagement:''' Digital media allows for more interaction between users<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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# '''Data accuracy:''' Digital media has more accurate data<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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# '''Consumer trust:''' A popular cite, it is easy to find out how the product is and read reviews before pruchasing or trusting, resulting in increased user trust.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Reach:''' Traditional media has a wider reach with certain demographics, like the older generation. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Feedback:''' Digital media allows for quick feedback with users<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Old Media Timeline ==
The invention of the printing press in 1440 was the start of the media as we define it today as “traditional media.” The creation of the ] forever changed the world of media. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>

*'''1440''' - invention of the movable type printing press by ]. This made mass production of print media possible, diminsihing the need for mouth to mouth story telling. Books were now copied exactly the same, deminishing hand written books that resulted in mistakes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1664''' - '']'' begins publishing in ]. As of 2024, it is the ] newspaper in the world still publishing.
*'''1810''' - ], a German printer, patents the steam-powered printing press. This technology resulted in the industrialization of printed media.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1847''' - ] patented the ]. This allowed people to no longer need to rely on messages by word of mouth.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1897''' - ] patents ]. Radios were less expensive than telephones and were available to the public by the 1920s. This allowed the ability of huge numbers of people to listen to the same event at the same time. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref> Radio was a great resource for advertisers, who could now have access to a bigger audience. The early days of radio were considered a “a glorious opportunity for the advertising man to spread his sales propaganda” because of “a countless audience, sympathetic, pleasure seeking, enthusiastic, curious, interested, approachable in the privacy of their homes (Briggs & Burke, 2005).”<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1927''' - First modern ] invented by ]. He was a US inventor who used a image dissector camera tube that transmitted its first image, which was a simple straight line.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1991''' - ] is launched, making the ] available to the public and shifting media online.

==Old Media in the United States==
*'''1940s''' - The US was in good standing during this time, and the television took rise for many households. About 7000 TVs were in the US during this post war time. Within 7 years, two-thirds of American household had at least one TV in their home.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1950s and 1960s''' - Broadcast television was the dominant form of mass media, and the ] controlled more than 90 percent of the news programs, live events, and sitcoms viewed by Americans.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref> Gross national product doubled; American homes were big contributors to the economy through media. Many households owned a television. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1970s''' - Televised news became increasingly popular during the ]. It was the first war that was televised nationally as a conflict. Nightly images of war and protesters were shown on these news platforms. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref> The three major TV networks accounted for 93 percent of all television viewing.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Publisher |first=Author removed at request of original |date=2016-03-22 |title=1.3 The Evolution of Media |url=https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/ |language=en}}</ref>
*'''1980s and 1990s''' - ] begins to spread.

== Advantages of Old Media ==

# '''Tangibility:''' Traditional allows people to touch it, feel it, and even smell it.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Credibility:''' Traditional media is much more trustworthy than digital media. Digital media or new media, increased the spread of fake news, unlike traditional media.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Reach:''' Traditional media has a wide reach with the older generations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Targeted audience:''' Traditional media can be targeted to specific audiences.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Disadvantages of Old Media ==

# '''Cost:''' Traditional media is commonly pretty expensive to produce<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Limited interactivity:''' Traditional media does not interaction, debate, or communication between others reading or seeing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>
# '''Little feedback:''' Traditional media does not have rapid feedback for consumers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abimbola |first=Ademola |date=2023-05-12 |title=Digital Media vs Traditional Media: Which Is More Effective? |url=https://mauconline.net/digital-media-vs-traditional-media-which-is-more-effective/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mauco Enterprises |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Fading of old media ==
Old media companies have diminished in the last decade with the changing media landscape, namely the modern reliance on streaming and digitization of formerly analog content,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wolff |first=Michael |title=Television is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age |publisher=Penguin |year=2017 |isbn=9780143108924 |pages=96–103}}</ref> and the advent of simple worldwide connection and mass conversation.<ref name=":0" /> Old media, or "legacy media" conglomerates include Disney, Warner Media, ViacomCBS, Bertelsmann Publishers, and NewsCorp., owners of Fox News and Entertainment, and span from books to audio to visual media.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Hanson |first=Ralph E |title=Mass Communication: Living in a Media World |publisher=Sage |year=2022 |isbn=9781544382999 |edition=8th |location=Los Angeles |pages=56, 67, 73}}</ref> These conglomerates are often owned and inherited between families, such as the Murdochs of NewsCorp.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Folkenfilk |first=David |title=Murdoch's World: The Last of the old Media Empires |publisher=Public Affairs |year=2013 |isbn=9781610390897 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=280–282}}</ref> Due to traditional media's heavy use in economics and political structures, it remains current regardless of new media's emergence.<ref name=":0" />

== Challenges faced by old media conglomerates ==
The advent of new communication technology (NCT) has brought forth a set of opportunities and challenges for conventional media.<ref>Garrison, B., 1996. Successful Strategies for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.</ref> The presence of new media, and the Internet in particular, has posed a challenge to conventional media, especially the printed newspaper.<ref name=":3">Domingo, D. & A. Heinone. 2008. "Weblogs and Journalism: A Typology to Explore the Blurring Boundaries." Nordicom Review, 29 (1): 3-15. )</ref> The new media have also affected the way newspapers get and circulate their news. Since 1999, almost 90% of daily newspapers in the United States have been actively using online technologies to search for articles and most of them also create their own news ] sites to reach new markets.<ref name=":3" />

The challenges faced by old media, especially newspapers, has to do with the combination of the global economic crisis, dwindling readership and advertising funds, and the inability of newspapers to monetize their online efforts.<ref>Yap, B. 2009. "Time running out for newspapers." The Malaysian Insider. Retrieved 31 October 2010 from http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/brianyap/28538-time-running-out-for-newspapers.</ref> Newspapers, especially in the West and the United States in particular, have lost many of their classified advertisements to the Internet. Additionally, a depressed economy forced more readers to cancel their newspaper subscriptions, and business firms to cut their advertising budgets as part of their overall cost-cutting measures. As a result, closures of newspapers, bankruptcy, job cuts and salary cuts are widespread.<ref name="mysinchew.com">Mahmud, S. 2009. "Is the newspaper industry at death's door?" Retrieved 30 October 2009 from: http://www.mysinchew.com/node/24415?tid=14.Straits Times. 22 October 2008.</ref>

This has made some representatives of the United States newspaper industry seek bailouts from the government by allowing U.S. newspapers to recoup taxes they paid on profits previously to help offset some of their current losses. Accusations are being made toward search engine giants by publishers such as Sir David Bell, who categorically accused ] and ] of "stealing" the contents of newspapers. A similar allegation came from media mogul ] in early April 2009, questioning if Google "should&nbsp;... steal all our copyrights."<ref name="mysinchew.com" /> Likewise, Sam Zell, owner of the ] that publishes the ''Chicago Tribune'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and the ''Baltimore Sun'' claimed it was the newspapers in America who allowed Google to steal their content, and therefore credited themselves for providing Google with their content.<ref name="mysinchew.com" />

== Old media as a cultural construct and colloquialism ==
Old media, opposed to its newer counterpart, have been found by theorists and historians like ] (author of '']'' and ''The Long Tail Phenomenon of Mass Communication''),<ref name=":1" /> ], ], and ]<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Natale |first=Simone |date=2016 |title=There Are No Old Media |journal=Journal of Communication |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=592–603 |doi=10.1111/jcom.12235 |url=https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21234 |hdl=2318/1768440 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> to be inaccurate to the realities of mass communication's progression. McLuhan, specifically, argues that a medium's information is contingent upon the very medium.<ref name=":2" /> In so doing, it never dies and always remains current. Therefore, the binary of old and new media, with new media making old become obsolete, is inaccurate. It would be far more accurate, according to the theoretical argument of authors like Ernst, to view new and old media as a spectrum.<ref name=":2" /> The challenges faced by old media, therefore, will never completely remove them from the public mass media sphere.

"Old media" as an idea only ever existed because "new media" does. In the research of Simone Natale, the use of the term "old media" in a survey of books only began to become popular in the late twentieth century once the developments of new media, such as the Internet, became widely available.<ref name=":2" /> Natale writes of old media as a social construct because of this; because no medium is old, one compares old to new in hindsight.

== See also ==
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Old media, or legacy media, are the mass media institutions that dominated prior to the internet; particularly print media, film studios, music studios, advertising agencies, radio broadcasting, and television.

Old media is also called traditional media.

Old media institutions are centralized and communicate with one-way technologies to a generally anonymous mass audience. By definition, it is often contrasted with new media, which are typically computer or smartphone-based media that are interactive and comparatively decentralized, enabling people to telecommunicate with one another peer-to-peer or through social media platforms, with mass use and availability through the Internet.

Types of old media

Newspapers
Radio
Television
Film (on reels/DVD)
Analog Technologies (Vinyl records, Cassettes, film photography)

Old Media Vs. New Media

Differences:

  1. Cost-effectiveness: Digital media is cheaper
  2. Interactivity and engagement: Digital media allows for more interaction between users
  3. Data accuracy: Digital media has more accurate data
  4. Consumer trust: A popular cite, it is easy to find out how the product is and read reviews before pruchasing or trusting, resulting in increased user trust.
  5. Reach: Traditional media has a wider reach with certain demographics, like the older generation.
  6. Feedback: Digital media allows for quick feedback with users

Old Media Timeline

The invention of the printing press in 1440 was the start of the media as we define it today as “traditional media.” The creation of the internet forever changed the world of media.

  • 1440 - invention of the movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg. This made mass production of print media possible, diminsihing the need for mouth to mouth story telling. Books were now copied exactly the same, deminishing hand written books that resulted in mistakes.
  • 1664 - Gazzetta di Mantova begins publishing in Italy. As of 2024, it is the oldest newspaper in the world still publishing.
  • 1810 - Friedrich Koenig, a German printer, patents the steam-powered printing press. This technology resulted in the industrialization of printed media.
  • 1847 - Samuel Morse patented the electrical telegraph. This allowed people to no longer need to rely on messages by word of mouth.
  • 1897 - Guglielmo Marconi patents radio. Radios were less expensive than telephones and were available to the public by the 1920s. This allowed the ability of huge numbers of people to listen to the same event at the same time. Radio was a great resource for advertisers, who could now have access to a bigger audience. The early days of radio were considered a “a glorious opportunity for the advertising man to spread his sales propaganda” because of “a countless audience, sympathetic, pleasure seeking, enthusiastic, curious, interested, approachable in the privacy of their homes (Briggs & Burke, 2005).”
  • 1927 - First modern television invented by Philo Farnsworth. He was a US inventor who used a image dissector camera tube that transmitted its first image, which was a simple straight line.
  • 1991 - WorldWideWeb is launched, making the internet available to the public and shifting media online.

Old Media in the United States

  • 1940s - The US was in good standing during this time, and the television took rise for many households. About 7000 TVs were in the US during this post war time. Within 7 years, two-thirds of American household had at least one TV in their home.
  • 1950s and 1960s - Broadcast television was the dominant form of mass media, and the three major networks controlled more than 90 percent of the news programs, live events, and sitcoms viewed by Americans. Gross national product doubled; American homes were big contributors to the economy through media. Many households owned a television.
  • 1970s - Televised news became increasingly popular during the Vietnam War. It was the first war that was televised nationally as a conflict. Nightly images of war and protesters were shown on these news platforms. The three major TV networks accounted for 93 percent of all television viewing.
  • 1980s and 1990s - Cable television begins to spread.

Advantages of Old Media

  1. Tangibility: Traditional allows people to touch it, feel it, and even smell it.
  2. Credibility: Traditional media is much more trustworthy than digital media. Digital media or new media, increased the spread of fake news, unlike traditional media.
  3. Reach: Traditional media has a wide reach with the older generations.
  4. Targeted audience: Traditional media can be targeted to specific audiences.

Disadvantages of Old Media

  1. Cost: Traditional media is commonly pretty expensive to produce
  2. Limited interactivity: Traditional media does not interaction, debate, or communication between others reading or seeing.
  3. Little feedback: Traditional media does not have rapid feedback for consumers.

Fading of old media

Old media companies have diminished in the last decade with the changing media landscape, namely the modern reliance on streaming and digitization of formerly analog content, and the advent of simple worldwide connection and mass conversation. Old media, or "legacy media" conglomerates include Disney, Warner Media, ViacomCBS, Bertelsmann Publishers, and NewsCorp., owners of Fox News and Entertainment, and span from books to audio to visual media. These conglomerates are often owned and inherited between families, such as the Murdochs of NewsCorp. Due to traditional media's heavy use in economics and political structures, it remains current regardless of new media's emergence.

Challenges faced by old media conglomerates

The advent of new communication technology (NCT) has brought forth a set of opportunities and challenges for conventional media. The presence of new media, and the Internet in particular, has posed a challenge to conventional media, especially the printed newspaper. The new media have also affected the way newspapers get and circulate their news. Since 1999, almost 90% of daily newspapers in the United States have been actively using online technologies to search for articles and most of them also create their own news Web sites to reach new markets.

The challenges faced by old media, especially newspapers, has to do with the combination of the global economic crisis, dwindling readership and advertising funds, and the inability of newspapers to monetize their online efforts. Newspapers, especially in the West and the United States in particular, have lost many of their classified advertisements to the Internet. Additionally, a depressed economy forced more readers to cancel their newspaper subscriptions, and business firms to cut their advertising budgets as part of their overall cost-cutting measures. As a result, closures of newspapers, bankruptcy, job cuts and salary cuts are widespread.

This has made some representatives of the United States newspaper industry seek bailouts from the government by allowing U.S. newspapers to recoup taxes they paid on profits previously to help offset some of their current losses. Accusations are being made toward search engine giants by publishers such as Sir David Bell, who categorically accused Google and Yahoo! of "stealing" the contents of newspapers. A similar allegation came from media mogul Rupert Murdoch in early April 2009, questioning if Google "should ... steal all our copyrights." Likewise, Sam Zell, owner of the Tribune Company that publishes the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun claimed it was the newspapers in America who allowed Google to steal their content, and therefore credited themselves for providing Google with their content.

Old media as a cultural construct and colloquialism

Old media, opposed to its newer counterpart, have been found by theorists and historians like Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail and The Long Tail Phenomenon of Mass Communication), Marshall McLuhan, Wolfgang Ernst, and Carolyn Marvin to be inaccurate to the realities of mass communication's progression. McLuhan, specifically, argues that a medium's information is contingent upon the very medium. In so doing, it never dies and always remains current. Therefore, the binary of old and new media, with new media making old become obsolete, is inaccurate. It would be far more accurate, according to the theoretical argument of authors like Ernst, to view new and old media as a spectrum. The challenges faced by old media, therefore, will never completely remove them from the public mass media sphere.

"Old media" as an idea only ever existed because "new media" does. In the research of Simone Natale, the use of the term "old media" in a survey of books only began to become popular in the late twentieth century once the developments of new media, such as the Internet, became widely available. Natale writes of old media as a social construct because of this; because no medium is old, one compares old to new in hindsight.

See also

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