Mass media From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , This article needs additional for . Please help by adding . Unsourced material may be and removed. (March 2007) Popular press redirects here; note that the publishes under the imprint The Popular Press. Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the specifically envisioned and designed to reach a such as the population of a . It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation and , although mass media was present centuries before the term became common. The term public media has a similar meaning: it is the sum of the public mass distributors of news and entertainment across mediums such as newspapers which require union membership in large markets such as Newspaper Guild and AFTRA, & ...