News media are the means or methods by which people learn what is happening in the city, in the country and in the world. The news media can be classified into two general categories: the categories of print media and electronic media. Print media use the written material to communicate news to readers. Electronic media use air waves to send news into homes, offices and public places. Print Media are usually divided into magazines and newspapers. Most newspapers print news daily. For example, the newspaper “The New York Times” is published every day of the year. Most news magazines are published weekly. For example, Newsweek and Time magazines are published once a week. Radio news is news that you listen to. In the United States, many radio stations broadcast five minutes of news every hour. TV news is news that you not only listen to but also watch. In Canada and the United States, for example, many people watch an hour of news on TV at 6 o’clock in the evening. In the future, new categories of news media will develop. Even today computers are beginning to influence the transmission and reception of news.