You can use the mass media to refer to the various ways, especially television, radio, newspapers, and magazines, by which information and news are given to large numbers of people.
...the development of the mass media.
...mass media coverage of the issue.
mass media in British English
plural noun
the means of communication that reach large numbers of people in a short time, such as television, newspapers, magazines, and radio
mass media in American English
those means of communication that reach and influence large numbers of people, esp. newspapers, popular magazines, radio, and television
Examples of 'mass media' in a sentence
mass media
Better a millennium or two of obscurity than to be written about by the mass media.
Luke Rhinehart THE BOOK OF THE DIE (2000)
In other languages
mass media
British English: mass media NOUN
You can call television, radio, newspapers, and magazines mass media.
...the development of the mass media.
American English: mass media
Brazilian Portuguese: grande mídia
Chinese: 大众传媒
European Spanish: medios de comunicación
French: médias
German: Massenmedien
Italian: mass media
Japanese: マスコミ
Korean: 매스미디어
European Portuguese: meios de comunicação em massa