The Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Newspapers vs Print Newspaper

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Newspapers and Print Newspapers

The main advantage of online newspapers is that as it’s free, it’s online it is quicker and easier to access and read which means you can be reading the news off your phone, tablet or laptop straight away rather than having to go out and buy a newspaper, which saves time. A second advantage to online newspapers is that there is more info through the use of images and videos, which would appeal to younger audiences as they prefer to look at images and videos rather than read long, boring news stories. Another advantage is that it is free an available all day everyday as it is updated regularly to bring you the latest and most up-to-date news. However a disadvantage to this is because they are always updating news stories, they will always be bringing new information out or changing information, which gives you a fake stories as some information could be false or incorrect. Another advantage of online newspapers is that you can search for old news stories whereas with print newspapers once you’re finished reading it, it'll be thrown away and you can't read or access any of the old stories. However another disadvantage of online newspapers is that you have to have wifi and a device to access the news stories so you won't always be able to check the latest news unless you have access to wifi or mobile data. Also online newspapers often have ad pop-ups which for some readers can be annoying when trying to keep up-to-date with the news or read any news stories.

The main advantage of print newspapers is that you don't have to have wifi or a device to read them as you can take them with you anywhere and read them without having to be connected to wifi. One disadvantage of print newspapers is that you have to buy them and if you want to read about the news every day, you have to buy a new newspaper every day, his can be quite costly and would only appeal to older audiences who had been doing this for several years. Another disadvantage is that print newspapers would only appeal to older audiences as younger audiences will just use the internet if they want to look at the news and most social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, always come up with news stories that is either been shared or as an ad to read. A final disadvantage to print newspapers is that if you want to read updated news stories or any news that come out later in the day, you have to wait until the next day to read these as print newspapers are written an edited in the early hours of each day so once they are finalised and distributed they can’t be changed.