News is a major part of daily life for citizens in most countries. It informs citizens of events happening and keeps us all updated on the status of our country. The way we consume news or how news reaches us has been changing in the past decades. Newspapers seem to be being phased out and online sites are become more and more popular. Many families used to have the local or national newspapers delivered to them daily, making sure they had time in the morning or afternoon to catch up on the daily events. This has changed.
Now people can receive live updates of breaking news stories in many different mediums. People can access the internet on their cell phones, can have emails sent to them from online sites, or can engage in other non-traditional ways of viewing news. We spend a lot of time engaged with some sort of media device each day. Computers are a very large part of the office now, whereas before, the use of computers was limited.
News is changing and newspapers are trying to keep up with the ever changing needs of our country. The New York Times and the local Journal Sentinal have spent a lot of time keeping their websites up to date with breaking news stories. Anybody can go online and read these news articles for free (in most cases). The use of online newspapers creates a very different atmosphere in the country. Traditional newspaper jobs are being forgotten and new jobs are being created to deal with the ever growing need for online resources.
The country has gotten in the habit of being well informed. People in our country need to know about news that is happening and they need to know about it right away. The use of online resources makes that easier. Breaking news stories can be accessed almost immediately, instead of waiting for the newspaper to come out the next day or hearing about it on the news that night. And although some people prefer the traditional way of getting their news, I think that newspapers will eventually become phased out and online websites will take their places.
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