old media

British  

noun

1. 1. the media in existence before the arrival of the internet, such as newspapers, books, television, and cinema

   2. ( as modifier ) Compare new media

      Warner's vast old-media holdings

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Example Sentences

There was something unconsciously fitting about it all: the spectacle of one old media company offering a platform to an icon of another to say something unhinged, self-obsessed and divorced from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

In the early 2000s, the old media were competing with the internet for the first time.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

As long as "The View" has wings, Goldberg's influence is secure in the old media kingdom of daytime broadcast; what need does she have for Musk's increasingly disordered coop?

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2022

She used to work for a magazine called Modern Psychology, and like so many old media publications, it folded.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2022

In transcending old media boundaries, production and appropriation come closer together.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai