The school newspaper influence on the consumption of mass media by school students. Case study: Israel

Abstract

The school newspaper is a common phenomenon in schools in Israel, as in many schools of the world for many years. The school newspaper (SN) serves as an educational communication tool that has undergone many changes over the years, mainly due to censorship, funding difficulties, and loss of readers in favor of the internet and social networks. With the crisis in the world of print journalism in 2008, the SN went through a rapid digitization process. The article sheds light on the consumption of the media and the press, and especially on the journalism studies and the SN impact on students while discussing the factors that influence this consumption, such as age and gender, freedom of expression and censorship, content, and personal preferences. The article is based on an experimental study case study that took place in an Israeli school. in which two groups of students participated, the students involved in the process of making SN- the active ones and a sample of school students who are not involved in the process, but are the SN readers. The purpose of this article is to examine the SN effects on the students, especially the behavioral effects concerning newspaper consumption.