Online newspapers surpassed the paper in America

According to the latest poll in the US, online newspapers have become more popular forms of information than newspapers, and polls also show changes in the habit of updating information of Americans.

Online newspapers have become the third most popular news form behind local and national television stations. Meanwhile paper newspapers are facing big financial difficulties and are gradually switching to online newspapers but charging readers.

Is the paper going into the past?

Pew Research Center said: "Reading habits have changed rapidly, people read online newspapers everywhere, with many different media and whenever they need to ." .

The survey showed that the popularity of local television channels was up to 78%, national coverage channels such as NBC, CNN, Fox News accounted for 71% and network newspapers were 61%. Meanwhile, the number of readers of leading newspapers such as the New York Times dropped by 50%.

Newspaper paper on both sides of the Atlantic is in a difficult time as the amount of money received from advertising is too low and more and more readers come to the internet.

The final print of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper was closed last year, while the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle were having a major cut.

Although the two major newspapers of Northcliffe Media, the company published more than 100 newspapers in England and Wales, Daily Mail and the General Trust to cut 1,000 employees in 2009.

Rupert Murdoch, the journalist tycoon, also closed London Paper and transferred all his newspapers (Sun, Times, Wall Street Journal .) into online newspapers.

Survey data also shows that general information channels such as Google News and ALO also become popular with many users, equivalent to CNN and BBC websites.