READERS' CHOICES AMONG PRINT AND E-NEWSPAPERS

res publication, 2012

Newspapers have been a source of information to one and all from various years. However, with the proliferation of TV News Channels, Readers' choice of getting news and information has changed. The evolution of new media has expanded the horizons for news and information gatherers, the focus of this study is on identification of habits and preferences of Newspaper readers. This study has been conducted to identify the Newspaper readership patterns among urban population of Punjab. The study also identifies the Language preferences and time spent on reading newspaper by urban population of Punjab. Further, the study attempts to gain insight of the various reasons that motivates urban population to read the newspaper. This study has been conducted in 3 cities of Punjab (a prime state in India), a sample of 250 urban respondents were selected from the Jalandhar, Amritsar and Patiala cities. Some of the analysis techniques used includes Chi square and Factor analysis.

This paper deals with the print media industry in India and the challenges it fails from falling readership and emergence of news on the digital platform. The researcher intends to predict the future of the Print Media industry by taking into account the socio-political, cultural and economic aspects that govern the industry.

Design/Methodology: The paper examines the. results from a survey conducted from well renowned online newspaper directories. The research covers the following aspects: global development of online newspapers, causes for growth, Indian perspective, coverage, language diversity, state and city output, archiving policy, and impact of web 2.0 on the online newspapers and their associated services. Findings: 5786 online newspapers host the web from 178 nations. USA ranks first in the list while India occupies the 4th position. The results show a mounting drift of online newspapers especially among the developed nations. India, which is also showing an unremitting growth towards online newspapers, has yet to compete with the rest of the world. Overall, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.29 per cent is observed over a period of 14 years (1996 to 2009). Maharashtra leads among the 31 contributing states/union territories of India. Indian newspapers are available in 21 languages with a high percentage (92.69%) with monolingual interface and about 36 per cent in English and above 16 per cent in Hindi. Language barrier, a biggest impediment in communication has yet to be solved and research has to be carried out to provide a multilingual access to the online content through newspapers. E-paper facility is found in around 58 per cent while approximately 60 per cent provide archive facility. A meager proportion of about 15 percent provide video links. Around 30 per cent make use of web 2.0 tools. Web 2.0 which is the latest buzz and holds a paramount importance in the online market has yet to make its way in the Indian online newspaper souk Future Implications: An intense study on user behaviour and online newspapers can be carried out using deep log analysis methods. Studying the needs of the online newspaper patrons in a virtual world will help in designing a better sustainability for online newspapers. Originality/Value: The study presents the results from the data gathered from different tools which provide access to online newspapers worldwide and India particularly. The study depicts originality in its contents and is of value especially to the reference librarians, information professionals, media personnel and others interested in grabbing nascent information through newspapers.

India is an interesting market for newspapers as its citizens belong to different faiths and speak different languages. While Hindi is a national language and has the most newspaper readership, regional newspapers too are follow strongly. In fact, in some states, readership of regional newspaper outnumbers the readership for Hindi newspaper. There are different types of news papers in the market right from national level news papers to community newspapers. In the midst of this all, there also exists substantial readership for English newspapers which are mainly confined to urban areas of the country. Though all of them are print media, the audience for all these news papers is different. Nagpur is also home to some famous Hindi & English Newspaper publications. Being fairly urbanized, a section of the society of Nagpur also follows readership of English Newspapers. It can be said all three language newspapers viz. Marathi, Hindi and English have their presence in Nagpur. The city houses some of oldest newsgroup like " Navbharat " and " The Hitavada " which are operating since pre independence era. In such context, we have undertaken to survey of 350 Nagpurians regarding quality of newspapers read by them. Age, gender, profession and income were the criteria defining respondent profile. Survey aims to know the perception of participants in respect of important newspapers published in Nagpur, published in three main languages viz. English, Hindi and Marathi. Dainik Bhaskar, Times of India and Lokmat Samachar emerged as most read newspapers in the city. Findings suggest that Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar scores over all other dailies on various factors for selection of a newspaper. This paper also makes suggestions to different newspapers to improve their readership.

An indication of downturn in print newspapers is surfaced in these recent years. Due to the advancement technology has influenced in the reading habit of newspapers that caused it to transcend from print newspapers to online news. A quantitative research has been conducted in the present study for examine the preferences between print newspapers and online news among the young generations. 100 respondents from the Klang Valley, aged from 17 to 25 participated in this research.. The result has shown that the readership towards print newspapers in Malaysia media landscape is shrinking and it has shown an indication of the preferences is shifting towards the online news. In comparative, the gratifications obtained from online news media were relatively higher than the print newspapers. The present study was aided by the uses and gratification approach concluding that audiences are actively seeking for the interactive media in order to obtain gratification.

Journal of Socialomics, 2015

People do a variety of things with the help of Internet. Many use internet for email and instant messaging to keep in touch with friends around the world. Some of them play games on the internet. There are those who depend on internet to get information through search engines.

Global Media Journal (Germany)

While TV may still be the dominant medium in India today, and the internet and mobile phone industry are currently growing at a tremendous speed, ‘old’ media such as the press don’t seem to be losing ground as yet. In times of a recurrent debate about the crisis of print media in Europe and the US, the Indian newspaper market still keeps growing and has attracted the interest of multinational corporations. One reason for this is that India is presently one of the largest markets for English-language newspapers and magazines in the world. Notwithstanding the continued growth of the English-language press, it is above all daily newspapers in the major Indian languages which form the motor of this unprecedented press boom. The article shows that in the wake of economic liberalization and the enforcement of the consumption-oriented market economy, the newspaper market in India can be said to be changing from a linguistically ‘split public’, which was characterized by many asymmetries for decades, to an integrated multilingual ‘consumer sphere’. It can thus be argued that in this new consumer sphere, the old existing and imaginary boundaries between ‘English-language’, ‘Indian-language’ or ‘regional newspapers’ are becoming increasingly fuzzy, whereas the new geographies of the ‘regional’ are now very important for the expansion and consolidation of daily newspapers. In order to de-westernize the current debate about the ‘newspaper crisis’, it would thus be important to look at different historical as well as contemporary trajectories of newspaper developments in the framework of changing media configurations in the so-called global South, which may differ significantly from the European or North American context.

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2020

The way news is disseminated has progressed over the ages. Human messengers, pigeons, print newspapers and now digital news-modes have changed, but the need to stay aware and updated with current events has remained important as ever. India, being the most diverse nation in the world, has various segments of news readers across age groups, region, occupation and literacy levels. People in each of these segments have different preferences for news content, and resort to different media to keep abreast of latest happenings. In this paper, a study has been conducted to study these differences in patterns of news and content consumption between millennials (aged 22-37) and baby boomers (45-60). The insights from this study might be of help to media houses to better understand the needs of readers belonging to the different segments.

MANTHAN: Journal of Commerce and Management, 2014

With the impact of globalisation and upsurge in technology, almost every other industry type is finding its way to go online through its products, delivery processes or by identifying better ways to reach the consumers. The print media has found its own presence on the web by making newspapers available online. The present study attempts to identify factors affecting the students’ attitudes towards online newspapers. Using factor analysis, the study finds that the important factors driving the growth of e-newspapers include versatility, improvements over print media, abundant knowledge, accessibility and the media being environment-friendly. At the same time, the most important factor which hinders the usage of e-newspaper is the accessibility of internet.

Research Column-IV, 2022

E-paper is an important innovation in the field of mass communication. In the era of technology digitization is the common word we hear every day. A large number of traditional newspaper readers are shifting to the online paperless mode of reading. This study examines to know the awareness and purpose of reading enewspaper and to find out the credibility of e-newspaper. For the present research descriptive research design is adopted. The study 93 was conducted in Vijayapur city of Karnataka state. For the present research simple random sampling technique is adopted. Researcher has selected 150 women randomly for the study. Structured questionnaire is used to collect primary data from selected women by means of personal interview. Keywords: E-newspaper, Women and reading habit.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2016

This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. Digital media present Indian newspapers with challenges and opportunities similar to those newspapers face elsewhere. However in India newspapers face such challenges from a position of greater strength, because of the continued growth in their print business, and with the benefit of having seen how things have developed in more technologically developed markets.

2013

This study was designed to explore and document the perception of Students of University of Sargodha about Online Newspapers. For this purpose researcher developed the questionnaire after conducting pilot study, for study researcher took the sample of 300 students from University of Sargodha using purposive and convenience sampling technique. The results of the study shows that a large amount of

This article explores about the online newspaper readers' news exposure and news consumption habits. It mainly focuses upon how many days and which days of the week, and how much and what is the preferred time to read more online newspapers by the academics teaching in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. For data collection, a cross-sectional survey was conducted. The sampling was done by applying a purposive and opportunistic technique with the purpose to include as many subjects as possible. In this way a total of 103 academics filled the closed-ended questionnaire. The analysed findings indicated that a typical reader reads online newspaper from 1 to 3 days a week. Further, he mostly reads on Sunday because on that particular day he finds more time to read. Moreover, in the context of time a typical online newspaper reader on average reads the online paper for an hour and prefers mostly to read during a day time.

TIJ's Research Journal of Social Science & Management - RJSSM, 2011

The contemporary view about media uses and needs is an audiencecentered view that assumes that media behavior is purposive, goal-directed and motivated, people select media content to satisfy their needs or desire, social and psychological dispositions mediate that behavior and the media compete with other forms of communication. Audiences are not the same and they seek and consume media based on their choices.Media on the other hand comes in different formats and provides different uses to its users. A survey was conducted on Indian adult consumers of news media, having access to Internet, who have a greater exposure to media sources and a cosmopolitan lifestyle from four-metropilitan cities in India to investigate the impact of reading Internet news on reading printnewspapers and watching TV news. The study confirms that there is a difference in the way the Indian audience consume news from the three different media . A distinct difference was confirmed in the newsgathering habits...