Why Print News Papers Are Dying Out

Why have print newspapers declined?

The first reason why newspapers have slowed down on printing newspapers is because of them all moving online, for example the Daily Mail has moved on and made a website online and is getting more views then the print version. This is because of the technological advancements, tablets and new phones come out every year and along with them come bigger expectations, newspapers can’t be improved because it’s just paper and ink at the end of the day, there is no way you can improve it. People like making life easier, going out to the shop and buying a paper every day is a big task for people in this era, so newspapers have moved along and made the lives of their audiences easier. Now news is a couple clicks away and this brings millions of people to the sites just because they can’t be bothered to take a quick walk to the shops.

Another reason why print sales are declining is because papers are moving to social media. The newspapers are making social media accounts on sites like Instagram and Twitter and are racking up millions of followers who look on their pages daily to read the news that the editors publish. This is another way the papers have made lives of the audiences easier and taken away that tiresome and long walk to the shops and made it so the papers are a few clicks away. Moving to social media was a clever move by the paper industry, they obviously saw that the world was moving online around 2011 and then started to create accounts on social media like twitter. The move online was a popular one because at this point in time the Daily Mail online twitter account has 2.29 million proving that papers moving online is more popular then print papers because the print circulation is 1.5 million.

Another reason why print is dying out is because of smart technology like the Amazon Echo (Alexa) devices such as this is taking over the print industry because they offer a service where you can say tell me the news to it and it will give you a full rundown of the news, you can also set some devices such as amazon echo up to automatically tell you the news as soon as the alarm goes off. This is yet again another instance of the technological advancements taking papers over.

The last reason the print industry has started to die out is the amount off is the television news channels. There are mass amounts of news channels on the tv and people can choose to watch these at any time of day. Leaving the channels open nearly all day would attract mass amounts of people because people may not have time to go to the shops and buy the newspapers, so they will wait until they get home and watch the tv news.

Print Newspapers are generally dying out due to the fact that people are getting more and more lazy each year and now days people can’t be bothered to go to the shop and buy a newspaper when they can just go on their smart device and look at it for free.