时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2010年慢速英语(三)月


英语课

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.


The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has become America's first major daily newspaper to publish online-only. Hearst, the company that owns it, printed the final newspaper on Tuesday. The Seattle P-I was one hundred forty-six years old -- the oldest daily newspaper in Washington state.



Seattle P-I employees in early March, before the newspaper became online-only


One hundred seventy people worked in the newsroom. Now just twenty journalists will work for seattlepi.com. The city is left with one major local daily, the Seattle Times. Some people think it could also go online-only.


Denver, Colorado, became a one-newspaper city a few weeks ago: the Rocky Mountain News closed. Other cities could soon follow.


Mike Simonton is a media analyst 1 at Fitch Ratings 2. He believes many two-newspaper markets will not survive through the end of next year. By that time, he says, there could even be some markets with no printed local paper each day.


Newspaper companies like Hearst, he says, are experimenting with new business models to see what works. But he says any new product will have to be different enough that people will not be able to find it anywhere else.


Some newspaper companies have recently sought bankruptcy 3 protection. These include the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, among others.


Newspapers earn most of their money from sales of advertising 4. But a lot of that market has moved to free or low-cost advertising on the Internet, including sites like Craigslist. Losses have only been intensified 5 by the recession 6.


Ad sales have always gone up and down with the economy. But one difference this time is that many newspaper companies are heavily in debt from buying other newspapers.


Papers are cutting costs. Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, has cut more than one-fifth of its jobs in the past two years. More than eight thousand jobs have been lost.


In Detroit, Michigan, the two big dailies are reducing home delivery to three days a week. In Ohio, the state's largest papers still compete but now share stories.


Newspapers have lost millions of readers as a new generation has grown up. Yet much of the news that people get online still comes from newspapers. Most papers give it away free on their own sites. The Wall Street Journal is one of the few that charge for its online version.


Last month bloggers celebrated 7 what they called a historic 8 moment. President Obama, at his first major press conference, called on a reporter for a Web-only operation, the Huffington Post.


The United States Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and the press. But as budgets shrink, newspapers are printing fewer pages, less news. They have fewer reporters not just in foreign capitals, but even in Washington.


Industry observers say quality reporting is being lost. The question now is to what extent it will find a new home on the Internet.


And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake. I'm Steve Ember.


 



n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n.等级( rating的名词复数 );收视率;表示电影分级的数字(或字母);(海军)水兵
  • He won high ratings [marks] in all his examinations. 他所有的考试都获得高分。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The boat was operated by two naval ratings in dress whites. 船由两个穿着白色礼服的水兵驾驶。 来自辞典例句
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
v.(使)增强, (使)加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
  • The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(工商业的)衷退(期),萧条(期)
  • Manufacturing fell sharply under the impact of the recession.受到经济萧条的影响,制造业急剧衰退。
  • A rise in interest rates plunged Britain deeper into recession.利率的提高导致英国经济更加萧条。
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adj.历史上著名的,具有历史意义的
  • This is a historic occasion.这是具有重大历史意义的时刻。
  • We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。
学英语单词
all-optical gate
alveolar ducts
avenarius
bain index of monopoly
Be out in force
Blavatskian
Bornel
breaking-strength
candy stripers
choirboys
circumclose
coal roadway
corridor stack
corselettes
december boys
dolosparite
Drangajökull
dried mullet roe
dry laminating machine
dysrhaphism
echo-photony
Elume
embryonic implantation
emendated
enter into treaty
every mother's son
facultative anaerobes
format transformation
Franklin Square
free-verse
front roll centre
gabrieles
genus cryptobranchuss
genus Melicoccus
gestational ages
glass fiber insulated wire
graniopharyngeal tumor
Greenland Abyssal Plain
gyro motor
hand drum
hard patch
hartsock
heterotherm
homoiophony
Houtigehage
jail-deliver
keynesian welfare state
knows no bounds
kraybill
lea
lecanora subimmersa
levamfetamine
logboard
lokey
lutist
match-makings
mean sediment concentration
mesangial capillary glomerulonephritis
Metonic cycles
misfere
Morphotox
moulding plane
Mulayjah
norsethite
notional cost
nouar
payment in stock
pilot ticket
pre-prep
preanal seta
price stabilization cartel
progressive area
pulsed reset
pyramidal numbers
refikite
RF ion plating
ridge-type earthquake
rotator cuff injury
Sazarac
scarves
seen over
shipping cycle
sieckmann
Simiane-la-Rotonde
spectrometer dispersion
stable remanent magnetization
stacker conveyor
standard radio horizon
stop someone's wind
succulent euphorbiae
tail rhyme
tamman
tampkin
tartrol
Tecticite
three-dimensional microscopic defect
uninnervated
unquoth
wariment
Welshify
whare
yellow podzolic soils