Friday, February 9, 2018

Benefits Of Online News

By Alxa Robin


Newspapers were still trying to survive amongst the television providing all the news, but there was the introduction of the internet that has flooded the need of the newspaper and the newspaper industry. As internet began to become more and more accessible to people all around the world, the need of newspaper started fading and it became difficult for the newspaper industry to cope with the internet.

Being one of the best developments, internet has made it a lot easier for people to collect information, in the quickest possible time. Being precise, with the help of the online news available on the internet, reader can get updates about the happenings all around the world.

Online news becomes the best medium to find information about the event happening in the locality, the weather forecast; sports news, political views, business industry and several other areas of interests, as online news are updated on a regular basis to provide the reader with fresh information.

This simply results in the fact that once the printing for the day is over if anything happens after that, you will only get to read about it the next day. Being precise, when you consider this option, you always get to read stale news, when you choose a newspaper, which has already been read by the internet users through online websites.

To the least a newspaper can be updated, ones or twice a day, whereas with the availability of online news, it is updated 24hours of the day. Hence you are more updated with the current happenings of the world. You do need an internet connection to get online, but you never need to wait for the delivery man to deliver the newspaper to you, accessibility to news becomes easier and quicker. Moreover, choosing online news also helps you to show your contribution to the environment, as it helps to save paper and thus conserve nature.

Amidst of all the advantages of online news for the readers, it has one disadvantage for the publishers. The subscription of online news is low as compared to the traditional newspaper. This simply means, when the number of readers increases for online news, the revenue generation of the newspaper automatically falls, leading to loss.

Despite the difficulties, the newspapers have managed to survive in the industry. Where there are newspapers that are providing more than what the readers like to read for free. Some newspaper also provide the option of getting more as subscription, this can only be activated ones the reader agrees to the subscription and mays the charges.

Other than that even the avid news readers get the convenience of reading online news with the help of internet anytime, whether during office hours or a home. There are a lot of websites available online that offer the user with news reading facility. Online news also becomes the quickest medium of getting news, as it is updated every hour or within few minutes, as soon as an incident happens you can check it on the online portals. Online news is a cost efficient method of being updated with the world.




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