The advantages and disadvantages of online and offline newspapers, and some popular online newspapers

1. Online and Offline
Newspapers

2. Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing
news of current events, informative articles, diverse
features, and advertising. It is usually printed on
low-grade, inexpensive paper such as newsprint.
In India, some of the popular newspapers are the
Times of India, The Hindu, Telegraph, Hindustan
Times, The Indian Express.

3. What are Online Newspapers?
● Newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web as
an online version of the printed periodical.
● Laws regarding libel, copyright and privacy also
apply to these newspapers.
● Increase visibility via dedicated content browser.
● A subscription fees or other paid form is required
for most of the editions.

4. Online Newspapers
● Digital edition is formatted identically to the print
version
● Features interactive elements like hyperlinks,
bookmarking, searching
● Multimedia elements of audio or video to enhance
the content
● Reduced costs to the publisher

5. Two Types of Online
Newspapers
E-edition
● Laid out just like a print newspaper, with all
formatting intact
● Includes all the illustrations, advertisements,
photographs as it is.
● Preserves the look and feel of the print version.
● Preliminary version of the shift from print to the
digital format

6. Two Types of Online
Newspapers
Web Edition
● It exists separately on the Internet, with a distinct
style separate from the print publication
● Includes brief stories of news, photographs,
interlinked web pages and file transfer
● Virtually all printed newspapers have web
versions; Times of India, The Hindu, Indian
Express, Deccan Herald
● Signals the next step in digital newspapers from
E-edition

7. Key difference
An E-edition of the newspaper is actually published
offline as a hard copy newspaper. It is a mirror of
the hard copy publication.
Web edition, on the other hand, are not produced
or run in any other format apart from the Internet.
They are never published as a separate version of
the newspaper.
E-edition tends to be less expensive, if it is
subscription based. Web edition tends to be more
expensive.

8. Advantages of Online
newspapers
● The faster and cheaper readers can access
anything, the better for them; real time updates.
● Most newspapers still offer free online access to
most news stories covering all news stories in
brief.
● Enables people to have access from any part of
the world, with limited use of resources; they can
pick and choose what they want to read.
● Can reach out to a wider readership with the
same content; use of different devices like cell
phones, tablets, notebooks, etc.

9. Disadvantages of Online
newspapers
● Authenticity: because the news is available
instantly, there is lesser time to verify the facts
● Credibility: even readers can share the news items,
thereby becoming news makers themselves. There
are chances of rumor spreading over the Internet.
● Popularity: page hits and readership popularity of
news items on entertainment, lifestyle, page 3 news
can put the hard news stories away from the search
engine crawlers.
● In that way, online newspapers are redefining
what’s most important news in a newspaper

10. Popular Websites for News
Stories

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