Abstract:

In recent years many studies have been carried out to learn about the Republican period provincial cities’ rhythm of daily life, their attitudes towards social and political developments and local cultural characteristics. The periodicals published in provincial centers in the early years of the Republic are the major sources of these studies. Since the presence of local media is related to printing, the adventure of the establishment of printing house in many rural central Anatolia has been troublesome. In particular in the early years of Republic, challenging economic conditions in printing and press, professional incompetence and technological impossibilities caused the periodicals especially newspapers to start being published late. In socially and economically underdeveloped province of Republic's city, Mus, printing and press life began in 1950s. In this study, the developments occurring in the process of the establishment of the printing house in Mus during the Republican era will be discussed and then the periodicals published throughout the province will be reviewed. Certain information will also be given about general release properties of periodicals which emerged in the first term of Mus local press, franchise owners, editorial staff and department with their general attitudes of presenting news and some other technical media features. Due to socio-economic underdevelopment of the city and low literacy in the population of Mus, late start of newspaper publication, financial problems, circulation, and lack of interest by the public, Mus local press could not indicate an example of a wide variety of local media.

Keywords: