B A T W O M E N T A Y L O R S

During the 1600’s, the main source of news is from newspapers. Newspapers stories go directly to a copydesk for editing whereas the graphic arts department supplies photos and illustrations. Newspapers during that time were not as timely as it is now. The design on newspapers were not really taken noticed of but the content of the news were more focused on. Today, news is timelier and designs on newspaper are highly paid attention to, for the purpose of attracting more attention from readers.

However, when news could be broadcast to radio and television during the 1920-1930’s, newspapers were not the only source of news. In the 21st century, news can be read online by people, as mobile devices are commonly owned since it can be bought at a reasonable price. The Internet has taken over the advertising revenue. Hence, readers who read news online are charged a certain amount of money for a sum of content read. Journalist today uses the Internet as their personal asset since everything could be done with it. News delivery over the Internet might change consumers’ view on newspapers and have curiosity on the jobs relating to newspapers. Hardcopies of newspapers might not be even published in years to come when online newspapers are highly and conveniently accessible.

Nowadays young people are not interested in newspapers for several reasons, one of them is the fact that our generation is too dependent on gadgets, and accordingly, the main volume of information they derive from the same place. Our generation is more convenient to get information online rather than buying the newspaper, as it is faster and easier. Another reason many students is limited to a limit of money, and, accordingly, the newspaper sidelined to arouse an interest of our generation to newspapers. We think newspapers should emphasis on the design of it because most of them look very boring and official for young generation, and automatically recall the stereotype that newspapers are read only by respectable man. In our opinion, it would be more interesting to read about other interesting events happening in the world than a political scandal and another point to arouse an interest is to put more interviews with interesting and extraordinary personalities.

Newspapers are still relevant today as it connects people to the world. People are able to receive the most recent and informative news from the newspaper. Although the people find reading newspaper is time consuming and inconvenient to bring newspapers with them, yet newspapers are still the most reliable source to the people. We should not let the newspapers die naturally, it should follow the footsteps of technology. For instance, news should be posted online as people find it easier to read and most importantly the news are timely. Newspapers in the future should be less advertisements as many people find the increasing number of advertisements will only increase the number of pages of the newspaper. Besides, newspapers in the future should be as small as a book size, it would be easier for people to bring the newspaper around with them wherever they go.

As we all know, newspapers play an important role in our life, country and future. We can get many information from the newspapers as well as the latest news of the world. Therefore, credibility is very important in the newspapers industry, people will not trust an unreliable information if the newspapers company do not provide sufficient evidence.

In our opinions, online newspapers have more credibility than mainstream newspapers. Many people prefer reading online newspapers over mainstream newspapers. They find it convenience and cost-free as they can read news by using smartphones or electronic devices. It is cost-free as we can browse to the news website and read news for free. We can even get the latest news to keep us up-to-date, the mainstream newspaper industry provides information which is usually a short time ago.

Online newspapers only have limited spaces for advertisements whereas mainstream newspapers usually consist of many advertisements which people usually find them annoying. Besides, online newspapers provide information that is straight to the point and less elaboration. The sentences are usually short and straightforward.

Researchers: Joey Hung Jia Yi, Jeff Tan Shin Sheen, Amanda Seah, Dina
Writers: Joey Hung Jia Yi, Amanda Seah, Dina
Editors:Joey Hung Jia Yi, Iqram Azeez

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