Print Journalism & the Online audience

Bilal Zeb — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:20:44 +0000

In the world of internet you are not bound to pay for what you read to feed your mind with the latest happenings of the world, having a notebook in your palm while relaxing at your drawing room or sitting in your office in front of your computer. with internet, it takes a couple of seconds to access the news about a particular subject that you are interested in. with the extensive growth of online audience i am afraid by the conjecture that the future of print journalism seems very slothful when it came to readership. the print readership is declining at a steady ratio, every newspaper that you find at your door step is a question mark where you ask yourself, is it worth paying for this waste of paper? i can easily update myself with fresh news from the news websites.

I think what makes print media alive in a long run is the trust & believe of readers. i have seen many people, specially those who born before 80s. they uses all the print, electronic & web for news updates & the bottom line of their perception only agreed with the reports taken from print media editorials. so in this case, internet can be described as a good medium for information but not journalism. you get information in bulk & raw shape from the internet & you interpret it after checking it on some other sources of news.

But however, the graph of internet journalism & its effectiveness will be higher then any other source in a long run. all the reliable & trusted news providers are working to establish a smooth & successful setup at which the online readers of their news website will be charged for monthly subscriptions. they are also focusing at online social media tools such as the facebook & twitter to use for news purposes in order to boost up the readership. so will you pay for the online news content?

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Print Journalism & the Online audience