Future+of+Newspapers

= **The future of a Printed Newspaper** =

With the direction of technological advancements, the future of printed news seems to become less likely each day. The generations and their demands are not calling for printed papers anymore; the current generation demands the information to be online. Once the past generations that grew up with the newspapers are gone, who will remember reading the newspaper? With growing technological advancements, the internet serves the public as an easier and more reliable source of news media. It is hard to believe, however newspaper industries must prepare to face the facts that the newspaper industry is a dying breed. The way people view the news is changing, and with a study showing that the use of paper is diminishing in the future, it leads to a lack of printed press. The internet is the main source of news and is gradually erasing the newspaper off the face of the Earth. Newspapers will diminish if all a person has to do is click on their internet icon and retrieve the information that way. For example, all sports teams, government agencies, and political figures have their own websites. By having their own websites, people are able to just go onto the computer and look up what they want to see at a much faster and easier rate. Why pay to read something that is just a few clicks away on a computer- for free? The internet also allows provides an easier way to reference articles from past events. People can look up the articles they want and not have to keep newspaper issues to reference. Overall, the use of the electronic newspaper is much more user friendly than the use of a regular newspaper. Technology is changing and inventing better usage of the people using it. Who wants to read news that is late, outdated, or changed? Each minute new posts are being made on websites, and changes are always happening. With a newspaper, once it is printed then it is set in stone until the next day when the next issue is printed. In some cases, by the time a subscriber picks up their paper, it is already old news that they are reading about. With technology being as good and as fast as it is now, it does not make sense for the people to read news on a piece of paper a day after it happened when it is almost instant on computer. The use of the internet is significantly faster and more reliable than the use of old style printing and delivering. Only a few years ago, it was a challenge for websites to get people to spend time for pleasure in front of a computer screen; now the problem is to get people under 50 to pick up a newspaper. Damp, encased in plastic bags, or both, and planted in the bushes outside where it is cold, full of news that is cold too because it has been sitting around for hours, the home-delivered newspaper is an archaic object. You can sit down at your laptop and enjoy that same newspaper or any other newspaper in the world. Or you can skip the newspapers and go to some site that makes the news more entertaining.

The main problem with the newspaper industries is that printing a paper costs the company more than it is worth. The people that are buying the newspapers are only really paying for the paper. So at the readers’ discretion it does not pay for the paper to even be printed or distributed for. This does not mean that news media companies should stop making news articles, just use a website and have people that pay for advertising remain to advertise and keep the companies going via online. The future of all news media is heading in the direction of being all electronic use, resulting in no paper. Studies show that the direction of the future is going to result in everything printed to be primarily electronic. Even studies have shown that money will no longer be printed but only plastic, like credit and debit cards. Future technologies such as kindles, iPads, laptops, and smart phones are going to be the main sources of reading the news. By having the news at your side and at your fingertips, and not being a bulky bunch of papers, is going to be much easier for people. The future will support that carrying papers around will not appeal to anyone, and having something easily bundled on something like an iPad will prove to be ideal. The newspapers fate is inevitable, the news media is upgrading with technology and the thought of a newspaper will just be a memory. Sources say that by 2050 there will no longer be any physical paper printed and delivered door fronts as a newspaper. The future has set up for the news media to run all through broadcasts and articles online. This will eliminate extra costs for readers and will supply the ability to have the news at the touch of their fingers. Times are changing and so must the way that our news is delivered, no more door to door, but website to website.

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