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Nellie Bly: (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) an american journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker - most famous work was faking insanity to study at a mental institute, and her record breaking trip around the world - wrote about fighting injustice and women's rights

She opened up new ways and ideas of getting information by going undercover and going to such drastic extents. Gave people more guts to write stories..."Mucrackers". Opened up oppurtunitites for women. Helped destroy gender boudaries.

Newspapers reaction to Radio and Television
Some say Future of newspaper may be unprdictable due to the competition with radio and television news. The 57th annual World Newspaper Congress in 2004 stated 2.2% - 7.8% of decline in newspapers being sold all over the world . Also, that only 35 of 208 countries which were studied had increases in newspapers being sold.

The Role of Newspapers are to provide the public with facts, issues, and opinions about the local, international, or national society

Newspapers are creating up to date online articles of the actual text included in the issue of the weeks newspaper. They are called e-newspapers or online newspapers. Newspapers such as The Star-Ledger, Chicago Sun Times, New York Times, and etc. all have Online Newspapers. Most newspaper companies today have a website access to their articles.

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