success. A good press release is one of the most effective ways of getting your issue covered in the media. Communications and Media Assistant Phillip Byrne gives you top tips on how to write the perfect release What is a press release? A press release is a standardised way of communicating with journalists. If written well it will tell them what the story is at a glance – making their job easier and making it more likely they will cover your issue. Journalists get hundreds of press releases every
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must be approached to people. For instance‚ it is an undeniable fact that we cannot hide wars‚ deaths‚ murders‚ corruption‚ rapes or robberies. Nevertheless‚ from my point of view‚ why can´t we reserve the front-page for happy stories? Why don´t press show us also the good ones? People would appreciate reading not only about horror and tragedy‚ because their lives are enough hard‚ but about great advances in medical therapies‚ researches and development. One final argument against the bad news
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Lab # 1 Free Press and Democracy Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Democracy allows eligible citizens to participate equally and to have free access to information ideas and opinions‚ with this reasoning is inferred that de democracy needs free press in order to be function properly. The power of the press is associated to the fundamental principles of democracy that ’s to say the freedom of expression
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inventions of the Renaissance: telescope‚ compass‚ printing press‚ etc. But the most important technological advance of all was the development of printing‚ with movable metal type‚ about the mid-15th century in Germany. A German named Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1436. Printing press invention had a large impact on the value of the books‚ religion and reformation and education. Before the invention of printing press‚ multiple copies of a manuscript had to be made by hand. Hand
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A printing press is a machine engineered for the purpose of mass fabricating and duplicating text and images in a short amount of time with the use of metal type or plates. The very first printing press with movable type‚ where the type can be moved and rearranged to form new and different text‚ dates back in China in 1‚000 A.D‚ created by a man named Pi Sheng. However‚ due to the complexity of the Chinese language‚ which contains thousands of characters‚ the printing press was proven void as it
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Before the Press: § majority of the population was illiterate § no standard for what proper writing was § ppl divided into upper class and lower class § knowing how to read did not mean that you knew how to write § knowledge limited to memory-- mnemonics & abrv. § books were rare and expensive § travel was dangerous - no maps § sense of time based on nature--no calendars‚ no clocks Brief history: § china made paper money and playing cards - block-printed § every word‚ phrase & pic was
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a man named Johannes Gutenberg; the man who invented the printing press. The printing press is one of those inventions that most people take for granted and do not realize their importance. Without the press we would still be handwriting every single copy of any book every written and so the question is what were the main consequences of the printing press? That is‚ what happened as a result of the invention of the printing press? The answer is that it marked the transition from script to printing
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The Indian Constitution‚ while not mentioning the word "press"‚ provides for "the right to freedom of speech and expression" (Article 19(1) a). However this right is subject to restrictions under sub clause (2)‚ whereby this freedom can be restricted for reasons of "sovereignty and integrity of India‚ the security of the State‚ friendly relations with foreign States‚ public order‚ preserving decency‚ preserving morality‚ in relation to contempt‚ court‚ defamation‚ or incitement to an offense". Laws
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has its roots in the standardization made possible by the printing press. Early textbooks were used by tutors and teachers‚ who used the books as instructional aids The next revolution for books came with the 15th-century invention of printing with changeable type. The invention is attributed to German metal smith Johannes Gutenberg‚ who cast type in molds using a melted metal alloy and constructed a wooden-screw printing press to transfer the image onto paper. Gutenberg’s invention made mass production
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This essay will assess to what degree the invention of the printing press has contributed to the spread of the ideas and ultimately the success of the Reformation in England and Scotland during the Tudor period. The impact of print has been studied by several historians and conclude that the Reformation was ‘virtually unimaginable without the invention of the printing press’. The movable type printing press invented circa 1450 by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz. In 1517 Martin Luther’s nailed his Ninety-Five
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