The newspaper companies hadn't come to terms with the fact of news being aired on television, when all of a sudden the arrival of internet brought a crucial blow to the newspaper industry. Most of the newspapers have not been able to handle the onslaught and have been forced into closure.
The advantages of online news are mainly for the readers. The e-news is much faster than the newspapers. You can simply log on to say Daily Express and read all the news you want. The moment something happens in any part of the world it gets published on the internet within seconds. In case of newspapers there is a specific time limit for any news to be reported in a newspaper on a particular date. Most of the newspapers go for printing at midnight, anything that happens after midnight will not feature the particular news until the next edition gets on to the roller of the huge printing machines. On the other hand e-news usually gets updated several times in 24 hours. Provided one has access to the internet, one does not have to wait for the delivery man to deliver the newspaper. While taking the environment into consideration E-news is more friendly to the nature.
There are some disadvantages online news but primarily for the newspaper publishers. The rates of subscriptions and advertisements are greatly reduced in case of online news which in return decreases the revenue generated from the printed version as the number of readers of online news increases.
With all the prevailing situation there remain only few ways that the newspapers can cope up with the blow they have taken from e-news. Some of the newspapers charge subscription to the readers that like to read more than what is offered for free. The link "more" can be used which makes the user to pay the subscription charges if he wants to read the complete news.
Newspaper publishers have now realized the fact that if they want the newspaper to survive they have to publish the newspaper in print as well as online on the internet
The advantages of online news are mainly for the readers. The e-news is much faster than the newspapers. You can simply log on to say Daily Express and read all the news you want. The moment something happens in any part of the world it gets published on the internet within seconds. In case of newspapers there is a specific time limit for any news to be reported in a newspaper on a particular date. Most of the newspapers go for printing at midnight, anything that happens after midnight will not feature the particular news until the next edition gets on to the roller of the huge printing machines. On the other hand e-news usually gets updated several times in 24 hours. Provided one has access to the internet, one does not have to wait for the delivery man to deliver the newspaper. While taking the environment into consideration E-news is more friendly to the nature.
There are some disadvantages online news but primarily for the newspaper publishers. The rates of subscriptions and advertisements are greatly reduced in case of online news which in return decreases the revenue generated from the printed version as the number of readers of online news increases.
With all the prevailing situation there remain only few ways that the newspapers can cope up with the blow they have taken from e-news. Some of the newspapers charge subscription to the readers that like to read more than what is offered for free. The link "more" can be used which makes the user to pay the subscription charges if he wants to read the complete news.
Newspaper publishers have now realized the fact that if they want the newspaper to survive they have to publish the newspaper in print as well as online on the internet
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