Newspapers are an excellent way of providing the news to the public. They were the most popular and at one point the only way to share the news until the 20th century when online versions became accessible. Due to online versions growing in popularity, it led to the newspaper print sales declining. Hard copies are in competition with online newspapers, this is because they have many advantages over hard copies of newspapers, this include that you can filter what kind of news you want to see, based on personal preference. You can view it anytime and it is updated much more frequently so some would argue it is more reliable and informative.
Although newspaper sales have declined, online news has been a massive positive for the readers. This is because online your are able to view extra media types, like videos, giving the audience more interaction with the article. The audience can also comment on the article and easily see other comments, broadening their thoughts of the story with different opinions. Hard copies cannot provide their audience with videos etc. which adds to the reason their sales have declined, as online versions offer more to you.
Most of the audience are between 15-34 years of age, this group are most likely to have phones where they can access the news online, making it more tempting to view a free online versions instead of leaving the house to go and buy one as it can be time consuming and inconvenient. The sales decline are proven through these following statistics; the daily circulation for the daily mail is 1,228,002, whereas the daily number of website visits is 169,400,000 on PC alone. This shows a massive contrast between online and hard copy sales. Online versions are much more popular because of the advantages we spoke about previously, this proves newspapers sales are declining drastically, but is this necessarily a good thing?
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