Expats Catch Up with the Latest India News Online

Over a decade ago, the print industry worldwide started its slow decline with the rise in digital news industry. The numbers now are so bad that analysts are just waiting to nail the final coffin on the industry. Even as the print industry in India is still robust, some pioneers have started shifting purely to digital. The beauty of the Internet, as expats and immigrants realized, is that they can still be updated with the latest India news even when they are out of the country.

Homesickness is the top problem of expats who have been away from their own country for a very long time. There’s no underestimating the help of reading live news in Hindi in alleviating their homesickness. They can read about politics, entertainment, sports, economy, health, technology and whatever gets their fancy.

For cricket fanatics, online news websites give the advantage of live scores so they can better follow their teams along with their usual cricket news, especially if their host country doesn’t really play the sport. There are only a handful of countries in the world where cricket is big so it can become quite difficult.

The digital news industry is quickly growing although analysts say that India’s print industry will be here for a long time. But both industries don’t have to compete. Instead, they can be complementary players. The readers can only benefit from getting the latest India news from their favorite website or the more comprehensive report from their favorite newspaper.

How Readers can benefit from Newspaper Online

On the production cost per story basis, nothing beats the news paper online. This can only benefit the readers because by reducing the cost, the organization can realign its investment somewhere else. Perhaps, the company can train the reporters to become better journalists. Or maybe spend more to write investigative pieces that require resources and manpower.

Extending beyond borders

Apart from the obvious, such as reading breaking news as they happen and get updated of the developments in real time, the lack of space constraints also allow digital websites to make long narrative pieces with multiple sources in order to give a more comprehensive product. This is its edge over print, which is typically saddled with the problem of space. As a result, editors will have to cut the story short in order to save space. When that happens, it’s the reader who will end up the loser.

The newspaper online is not limited by geographical constraints. That means an Indian national who is residing in Iceland, for example, can still get the latest news online as long as he has Internet connection. That’s one advantage over the newspaper which is contained in a particular area, depending on the number of circulation and the budget of the organization.

One drawback to digital age is that anybody who blogs about news already thinks he or she is already a journalist. There should be a distinction between a blog and a news site. The latter should have the necessary filters and gatekeepers in place to make sure the final product has all the elements of news.