Abstract

Newspaper as a kind of mass media offers plenty of information for people and always affects people’s daily life. There are about 2000 daily papers in America and Britain, and more than 5000 kinds of various periodicals, most of which are local and professional. However, there are not so many national newspapers and magazines. This paper mainly compares the most prominent American and British newspaper -- The New York Times and The Times. This paper first makes a general introduction of The New York Times and The Times, then talks about each of The New York Times and The Times from two points of view, their similarities in their main content and political inclination, and their differences in formats and the reporting tendency. So through this discussion, we can get to know more clearly about the American and British newspapers.

Key words: The New York Times; The Times; comparison

摘要

报纸作为一种大众媒介一直不断地为人们及时地提供有效的信息，影响着人们的日常生活。美国和英国的日报总数约两千多家，各种期刊多达五千余种，其中绝大多数是地方性和专业性的报刊杂志，全国性大报和杂志为数并不多。本论文主要采用对比的方法，结合有关实例，对比英美两国最有影响的报纸——《纽约时报》和《泰晤士报》的异同。本文首先对《泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》做总体上的介绍，接着从两个角度分别讨论英美的两大主要报刊。一是从他们的相同点进行讨论解析，分析他们在主要内容、政治倾向上的相似之处。二是根据他们的排版方式和报道的主题精神的不同点讨论解析，从而对英美主要报纸有更透彻的了解。
 
关键词: 《纽约时报》；《泰晤士报》；比较

1. Introduction
Modern newspaper is one of the most important means in the field of transmitting information, yet it has a life of only several hundred years. For several hundred years, newspaper makes great contribution to the progress of human civilization. Every morning in the city when countless people are still in the dreamland, millions of newspapers, which carry fresh information, have freshly come from the roaring printing press. The earliest newspaper in the world appeared in China, but in the newspaper-developed country of British and America, the development of newspaper still shows prosperous complexion, such as The Times in Britain and American The New York Times which are the typical cases.
Firstly let’s come to The Times. The Times was originated in 1785, which has come to be an all-around and national daily newspaper, and also has great impact on the political, economic and cultural life of the world. It is considered as the first mainstream big newspaper all the time in Britain for a long time, which has been praised as “the social faithful registrar in British.” The Times has had a long history of development, but the road of its development is very zigzag. It has ever experienced three tides and two ebbs in its history of over 200 years.