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•Print journalism -A practice of reporting news or events through newspapers and magazines in written format comes under print journalism.It consists investigating or collecting news stories, writing,editing and publishing it in print format.It is yet relevant all over India in spite that TVs or digital platforms are popular among masses.This is the traditional way of consuming news that’s why it is still relevant.
•Print Journalism in Digital Form- Nowadays,with the development of Internet or world wide web,print journalism has been digitised.Consuming news from digital medium and too in print format is popular among people and particularly the Gen-z generation.
The success of some digital print media websites like – The Print,The Quint or The Wire proves this fact that print journalism in digitised form is most effective way of imparting news or informations to the common masses of this country.
Though there are some disadvantages of print journalism like only literate or educated people can understand the event going on.But on the other side this is also an indicator of the number of masses who are legible and are able to understand or grasp a particular information by using their existing knowledge.Also the print journalism is a little bit of complex medium to comprehend informations as compared to video or TV journalism.But despite all these drawbacks, print journalism is constantly expanding itself through digital medium.
• Challenges and Future of Print Media- while print publications remain relevant and effective,it faces major challenges in today’s world.The first and foremost challenge is increasing dominance and popularity of TV journalism.Citizens now have entered into a habit of consuming instant or breaking news.If the trend continues,it might pose threat to the print form of mass communication.
One common enemy of not only print media but all forms of media is fake news.It becomes very easy to deceive people by curating posts on social media in print form by providing wrong informations.But at the same time , print media or print journalism can be most credible of all mediums because nowadays in this era of artificial intelligence,the tendency of getting deceived through virtual or video formats is really high.so the people may find print journalism more trustworthy.
Timeless value of print – Print media’s endurance is all about innovation and staying relevant.In this time when we are overfilled with different types of information,print media offers readers to slow down and immerse themselves in in-depth stories.It is an unique factor of print media.
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