Print media losing traction

Dear Sir

I am doing bachelors in media studies. I have noticed this fact that we have become more dependent on the internet and mostly rely on the digital world as we are being surrounded by gadgets. As a matter of fact, the importance of newspapers is somewhere lost and people prefer e-papers rather than using the old means of information, like newspapers.

Due to diverse factors, it is being perceived in our society that when it comes to media studies, only electronic media is preferred but the actual fact is that print media is also a part of media studies but as people have to buy newspapers to read it, they prefer to read it online while doing their work. In my opinion, new technologies have lessen the importance of the print media and it has cost many other people who prefer print over electronic.
We cannot deny this fact that electronic media provides more information in lesser time but the significance of print media cannot be denied. And I think media organisations and universities must provide an opportunity to those people who can excel in print media field so they can change the already built notion of the print media.

Shafqat Rana
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