In today's world, newspapers have lost their past glory. Now, reading newspapers has become an old-fashioned thing. Instead, online-based new portals have fore-fitted the place of newspapers and placed themselves as a credible source of everyday news and reports.

People like us were dependent on the daily morning newspapers to get all types of reports. But, now the place has been taken by web-based news websites that are accessible to everyone and everywhere. Moreover, these are also free.


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Why Web-based News Portals are winning over Newspapers?

Online newspapers or portals can provide lots of benefits to newsreaders. Let us check some of them here.


Easy Accessibility


Online news portals are easy to access than paper-based reports publishing. People just need a smart device (Computer, Tablet, Mobile), and a working internet connection. And, with these resources, people can access any kind of report they want to read.

If I want to read news in my native Marathi language, I just need to search "latest news in Marathi" or "Today's news in Marathi" on Google and I will get tons of search results. There I can read all types of broadcasts that I would like to.


Almost Free of Cost


We can access online portals almost free of cost. To read newspapers daily, we need to pay for monthly or yearly subscriptions. But, Online reports are free to read, and there are hundreds of free applications available for that purpose. And, these cost almost nothing if we deduct the cost of internet access and the smart device.


Immediately Available


We need to wait till the morning and for the newspaper delivery boy to read them. But, people can get online broadcasts immediately without any difficulty. We just need to type the URL of the report's website and enter it. This way we can read any kind of coverage.


Convenient


One of the most amazing advantages of online news publishing is that these do not require paper, ink, setup, machinery, and many others. Hence, the cost of publishing coverage reports online is negligible if we compare it with paper-based report publishing.



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Easy Reporting


Those days are gone when reporters and journalists need to collect reports using expensive cameras and reach the office, submit their coverage reports and wait for publishing. But, now people just collect their news and upload their content with the help of the internet to the main office. From there, all kinds of coverages get published.


Everyone can become a News Asia Reporter


Nowadays, everyone can report a piece of news if they have the skills and knowledge. With the emergence of the internet and smart devices, now everyone can make news. Smartphones of today are taking the places of expensive news cameras (not completely, but partially).

People are reporting about their surrounding incidents and happenings on daily basis. Social Networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram are filled with these types of amateur news reports that can tell many things about the local news.


Traditional Newsrooms are no more Important


Reporters and Journalists of today do not need traditional newsrooms for editing and publishing news reports. With the emergence of online news portals and publishing opportunities, people are publishing all types of news and most of them are related to local issues. Setting up a newsroom at a large expense is no more important.

Importance of Local News

The emergence of online-based news portals has reduced the requirements of paper-based news distributions. Hence, many of the newspaper companies are struggling to keep them in the race. But, people are not deprived of local news. All thanks to the web-based local news portals that are constantly publishing local incidents and issues to us, making us aware of those things.



Most of the time, news from the local level is often ignored as journalists and reporters give more priority to national and international level news. Some regional news TV channels cover a few reports, but these are not enough. There are many issues and problems that people face in their particular area. If those things are ignored, then others especially authorities wouldn't be able to know about them. Hence, these local-level issues wouldn't be solved.

Conclusion

The disappearance of local newspapers has created a void in our life. It impacted us politically, socially, economically, and democratically also. In a democratic country, none can deny the significance of the news and reports.

The press is known as the 4th pillar of Democracy. But, nowadays the press may have become obsolete or the thing of the past. Now, the position has been taken by internet-based news publishers that provide both local and global level news reports. This is why they matter.







Avijit Sarkar is a Content Writer working for the Local News Portal in the Marathi language in Mumbai, Maharashtra.