Newspaper

Newspapers are out of date, slow, uninteresting, and a hassle to read. The list of negative adjectives goes on and on. The list of things newspapers can improve on is simple and also quite long. I would read a newspaper more if it were free, if it wasn't such a hassle to read and if it had more pictures. Let's compare magazines to newspapers for a moment, magazines are simple to read with tons of pictures as well as reporting on news. News papers on the other hand are difficult to open and with few pictures in the whole thing, it is also just grey and black, BORING!! No one likes having to open the paper and fold it together as well as search for your article as if you are Christopher Columbus searching for the new world. It is Tom foolery to expect newspapers to be just handed out for free but with sales doing so terrible what could it hurt?
In order to boost sales newspapers need to start hiring bloggers and having people pay to read their blogs (come get me New York Times or The Oregonian). Blogging is the new, trendy and free way of getting news so it is a real head scratcher why newspapers haven't started to employ bloggers. Newspapers also need to change their look. Long gone are the time of the boring old grey and black huge papers, they need to be smaller, brighter and have a look of a magazine. Magazine sales are doing fine so I'm not sure why newspapers haven't jumped on that bandwagon. The final thing newspapers need to do is give the readers choices on apps. Allow the reader to personalize how they get the news, allow them to choose what journalist they see the most, what topics they see and where in the world the news is happening.