Same as gail, different newspaper, (LA Times and SD Union). First was radio and movies. For 30 cents (adult) or 15 cents (child), you’d get a newsreel, (scroll down, Chuckie, the hula hoop one is for you) a cartoon or two, previews of coming attractions, and a cliffhanger (my favorite and the first I remember).
I remember the news on the radio less, but do remember important events breaking into radio shows. We didn’t get a TV until I was 3, but it was limited, even in Los Angeles, so the radio was still used.
TV news started out much shorter than it is today and much less elaborate, basically a 15 minute dry read with perhaps a still picture behind it. It was fun when the pictures would get mixed up or out of sync and the reader would not realize it.
The very first news that I remember recognizing as news was on the original Mickey Mouse Club newsreel.
The first newscaster I have memories of was Clete Roberts
@gail: I lived in Tukson for a short while. I determined who my friends were in college by posting a New Yorker cartoon on my dorm door. The first frame had a huge NY Times Sunday paper on a porch. The second was the paper removed, funny looking squished dog underneath, tongue flattened out. Odd humor, yes, but I would wait for someone to stop and laugh and then open the door and find a new friend. I still have more than one of those friends all these years later.