Newspapers were still trying to survive amongst the television providing all the news, but there was the introduction of the internet that has flooded the need of the newspaper and the newspaper industry. As internet began to become more and more accessible to people all around the world, the need of newspaper started fading and it became difficult for the newspaper industry to cope with the internet.

However, majority of the newspaper and magazines publishers have understood the need and preference of online news and thus they have shifted their focus towards news websites to provide their readers with updates and happenings all around the world. There is definitely a difference between availability of news online and reading it through newspaper.

A majority of the news websites that you come across on the internet are the online representation of the existing newspapers. You may also find websites that are exclusively built for a particular kind of news, whereas there are others that provide you with different section of news.

This simply results in the fact that once the printing for the day is over if anything happens after that, you will only get to read about it the next day. Being precise, when you consider this option, you always get to read stale news, when you choose a newspaper, which has already been read by the internet users through online websites.

People were more acquainted with the traditional printed newspaper or television and every time they want to know about any news they would turn towards it and search for it. But with internet being available at such a low price and more and more people looking to be online, even the major newspaper publications have understood the need and demand of news online.

Also with online news, website allows individuals to post advertisements and articles too, for free on the online news magazines. Almost every news website that you come across provides you with an archive section that provides you with reference of the internet viewers.

Despite the difficulties, the newspapers have managed to survive in the industry. Where there are newspapers that are providing more than what the readers like to read for free. Some newspaper also provide the option of getting more as subscription, this can only be activated ones the reader agrees to the subscription and mays the charges.

Apart from this, the newspapers have also understood that need for being online and therefore, they have also managed to have an website for their newspaper on the internet and even provide the printed newspaper too. With the growing use of the internet, it has become essential for the publishers to offer something unique to their readers to keep them intact.