Online journalism is the right choice for upcoming journalist
If you want people especially youth who are always on internet to develop a habit of reading you need to give them content that will take their attention them, whatever their mood. That means mixing longer, in-depth investigative pieces with shorter stories, news you can use tips and a variety of other features, including comics, lists and yes, even ads and coupons. Online, it can mean shaking up your front page with polls, discussions as well as blog posts and links to longer stories. If the internet wants to change focus and go with easy, formula pieces for a while to pump up the traffic, so be it.
Editor have been coming up with stories to fire journalist. Sure, that’s hard, but if you don't want to live under the constant threats of being given marning, you need to either start publishing for yourself or finding another field in which to work. The local publishers I know are even tougher than corporate publishers in holding the line on labor costs to think that the only people who will gain from this online newspapers are layout designers.and to think that the editors are working out of their budget they get extra tight with expenses when it's their money that's getting spent.
If you want to attack the world for being dynamic you need to attack the editor for globilising with the changes. Newspapers will live or die on its own. If you think you can do better - do it. The internet can either step up its game and compete with better content, or die the death that so many of us have predicted for it.
This are the newspapers that are most read online and even people buy them and it wont stop from improving I qouted a brief information about them:
“Daily Sun is the first South African tabloid aimed at the black working class. Initially met with disdain by the established press, its huge sales - and the fact that it has made new newspaper readers out of millions of South Africans - have earned it some respect. In the few years since its launch by Media24, the Daily Sun has become the largest daily newspaper in South Africa. It is sold in Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West”
“The Star is published in Johannesburg and distributed throughout South Africa, with most sales in Gauteng. Once aimed exclusively at the white market, today over 50% of the Star's readers are black. It is owned by Independent Newspapers. Launched in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape in 1887 as the Eastern Star, the paper moved to Johannesburg in 1889.”
“The Sunday World, launched in 1999, is a tabloid aimed mainly at black readers. Owned by Johnnic Communications, it is distributed in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West”
