ONLINE NEWSPAPER VS PRINT NEWSPAPER

The main purpose of online newspaper is to provide news and information that are more timely, more thorough than print newspaper. Not only do they allow for instant updating of news stories, they provide an avenue for instantaneous community conversation about important matters of the day, entertainment, classified ads, and even obituaries.


Online Newspaper is more personal that is why it is more of interactive communication or two way communication. The main goal of online newspaper is to expect feedback from the audience. It is also a multi directional communication or public communication because online newspaper is open to the public that they can access anytime. Timing of communication is flexible and responsive to demands of participants

Online newspaper and print newspaper have different audience. Its goal is different from the other online newspaper aims to exchange information while ordinary newspaper they are there to persuade

Legal boundaries, such as laws regarding libel, privacy and copyright, also apply to online publications. Online newspapers must abide by the same legalities as newspaper publications.

The typical composition of online newspaper are search engines, news stories, links within news stories and hyperlinks-ads.