ABSTRACT
The
research examines the impact of online news on the readership of hardcopy
newspapers among University of Lagos students. Reading from online news
websites, blogs, social media are on the increase among students as technology
is becoming more advanced to the extent that students can access newspaper
online using their Smartphone, GPRS enable phone therefore, led to the sales of
few copies of newspaper due to the fact that people read news as it breaks not
necessarily waiting till another day to read from newspaper. Survey method was
adopted coupled with 200 copies of questionnaires that were administered within
the university community with 100 university staffs and another 100 students
were drawn as sample size using non-probability method (purposive technique.)
Frequency and percentage method of data analysis was used to analyze data. From
the findings, it was clear that soon there will be less hard copy of newspapers
in circulation as more readers now prefer online newspapers. It was evidence
that larger percentage of the respondents visit online for news regularly
especially students who cannot do without surfing net. It was recommended that
media outfits should be diversify in their production by convergent to the new
media which is invoke now in order to remain in the race.
