Newspaper extra
A newspaper extra, extra edition, special edition, or simply extra is a special issue of a newspaper published outside the regular schedule to report major or breaking news that arrived too late for the standard edition, such as the outbreak of war, the assassination of a public figure, or key developments in a high-profile trial.[1]: 261
It evolved from the earlier broadside, a single-sided sheet intended to be posted in public places.[2]
Beginning in the mid-19th century United States, street vendors, usually called newsboys, would call out, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" when selling extras.[3] This phrase later became a catchphrase often used to introduce dramatic events in films.[4]
With the rise of radio, extras became largely obsolete in the early 1930s in areas with good radio coverage, replaced by breaking news bulletins.[1]: 36 However, extras have occasionally appeared in the 21st century. For example, several North American newspapers published an extra on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, to report the terrorist attacks, even if they had not issued extras for years prior.[5][6]
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- 1 2 W. David Sloan, et al., eds., American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices, 2002, ISBN 0786451556.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1922, p. 59
- ↑ Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allen, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, ISBN 0335221831, p. 90
- ↑ David R. Stokes, The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America, 2011, ISBN 1586421891, p. 115
- ↑ "PHOTOS: Star front pages Sept. 11-17, 2001". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ↑ Swanson, Lillian (September 16, 2001). "Behind the coverage of a tragic event". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. C10. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
20 people worked to put together the paper's first Extra edition since O.J. Simpson's acquittal in 1995, and only the fifth in 50 years.
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