Paper 2 · ICT and Technology
In Heritage Studies, the term media is best defined as
Athe machinery used to print the newspapers and magazines people buy.
Bthe channels through which information is stored and passed to a large audience.
Cthe group of journalists and editors employed by a newspaper or a broadcasting house.
Dthe government department that licenses newspapers and radio stations.
Explanation: Media are the means by which a message is carried to many people at once: newspapers, radio, television, film, the internet and social platforms. Journalists, regulators and printing machinery are all part of the industry, but none of them is what the word media names.
Derived from ZIMSEC Heritage Studies 4006/2 Paper 2, June 2025, Q1