American English in print media

Newspaper and also magazines play an important role in society. They keep people informed about the news and not only the news in their countries but what is going on in the whole world. 

Print media is, at least in the USA , the term that people use to refer to all this specific reading material that contains information about the recent events.

In newspapers, there are some articles. When there are several articles all under the same point of information, they are called sections. These sections are:

 - The front page,  where the summaries of the most important news are written. This section is full of headers of the mains news. The header is the “title” that tells us the subject of the news.

- There can also be a page devoted to important subjects such as economy and happenings.           This section is known as “local news” .

- The sports section, where the news related to sports are printed.

- Then, the forecast section is where the things related to the weather are (and also news about natural disasters but that can be in the front page as well) . 

- Finally, there is the section of ads. In this section, one can find from things to rent to people to meet and chat with.

- There also are newspapers that include sections like health and technology but not all of them do so it really depends on the printing house.

The use of language, in headers, has to be very brief so that people can understand what the news is about in a flash. Then, the news is described in depth and full of details.

A little piece of the history of newspapers:

The very first newspaper published in America, was printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston on September 25 in the year of 1690.

During years, technology developed and so did newspapers. Their format, presentation and design was altered a lot of times but it was in the 20^th century when the first internet on-line appeared. 

Here is a link where you can share one of the most famous American on-line newspapers:

http://www.nytimes.com/ 

Sources: http://www.historybuff.com/library/reffirstten.html and wikipedia.

By Francisco Manuel Alfonso Sánchez.