Thursday, February 18, 2010

What is a Successful Newspaper?

Newspapers exist to bring current news to an audience. Some papers publish local news and ads for a local audience, like town or city papers. Others focus on national stories for larger audiences, and can be national or even international.

A newspaper is successful when the readers are dedicated to a paper and trust it to bring them current, factual, and well-written news.

The look of a newspaper is one of the first things a reader notices before reading. This includes the layout of articles and pictures, organization, fonts, and eye-catching headlines. This is especially important for the front page.

Besides being aesthetically pleasing, a successful newspaper also has to have good journalists who have detailed, accurate, and in depth coverage of news and major stories. If a paper is known to be overall well written and have the most valid and detailed information, then readers will want to choose this paper as their news source over other competitors.

The goal of a newspaper is to attract readers using these factors, and if it’s successful, maintain their readers. Once an audience is dedicated to a newspaper as an information source, that newspaper has been successful in developing a dependable audience.

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