Apart from turning to an online format, how else have newspapers changed to entice more readers?

ha ha i should have done this to get answers to my media exam lol (sneaky), this some of the stuff my media teatcher told me how they have changed;

New size and format allows them easier to handle and read

More interesting/niche stories

More opinion

Flexible distribution

Better news design

More advertisement, coupons, freebies

Thought more about what the reader wants

More softer entertaining news

Bigger font and lower reading age

more revenue from advertising

higher quality and color prints

hard news gets lower priority

more local stories and less foreign stories

hope it helps xx

They have of course changed to the online format, but their are many other reasons they have become more "publicely readable"

For one, their reading standard has gone down. The reading standards are marked between 1 and 14 normally, 14 being genius level, 1 being...well, picture books (or the sun)

Newspapers used to be around 11th or 12th level reading, but now they have gone down to around 8th or 9th. this meanes people with a level 9 reading ability can read and enjoy the papers, as can someone of level 11 or 12.

We also have chanegd the sources. I hate to say it, but newspapers are now more aimed at shock and impulse than before. We now often by newspapers because they will simply tell us something on the front cover, that we want to know more about (credible or not)

But back in the old days, the stories would be simalar to those on the later pages, simply more important.

These are the two ways they have changed most, hope it helps.

They've sold out to mega-rich Russians, who naturally haven't the smallest interest in British news, but only in making money from adverts.

The once excellent Evening Standard is now dying as a free sheet.

Its Russian owner is now sniffing round daily newspapers.

Tragic.

Some say that if that porn king Richard Desmond owns the Express, and that dreadful old Aussie has the Sun and Times, why not let the Independent or Guardian go to some dodgy Russian scrap metal baron?

1._ just one more guy and a gin (three "j" sound annoying) 2._ Archangel Satan 's the master 3._ Forcing body to expel the soul 4._ exploitation and torture is the pay 5._ conflict of soul [no] more (You must avoid the "no" words, we have 6 in here, too many) "conflict of soul. a chore" (chore = a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee ) 6._ "a silken thread of fate to weave a new life for a whore.." This part depicts hope. If this is your intention, it is nicely written as a phrase. As a whole, though, it creates a void between the previous stanzas and this one. Overall the poem is a very good output. The subject is a tough one to be analyzed, especially when we include the supernatural element. A tough one for sure, with a powerful poet - writer behind it, to back it up!. #2 is not exactly right and again,not wrong. The point needs correction. My answer to #2: I usually walk down the street with a tequila shot in my hand, looking to get tequilaid.. I do it all the time. So, it may happen to another guy with a shot of gin, I presume.

They seem to focus ever more on celebrity and not on news. Celebrity sells.

They have increasingly enticing freebies. No longer just free CDs, DVDs and poster pullouts. For example, The Telegraph (in the UK) was recently gave £10 off a £50 supermarket shop if you bought it's Saturday paper (cost: £1.80).

Some papers have changed their format from broadsheet to tabloid (The Times in the UK) or to the Berliner format (The Guardian/Observer in the UK). This seemingly makes the paper easier to read, especially if reading it when on public transport.

Some papers have switched from being paid-for to being free. The London Evening Standard recently moved to being free, with the paper being paid for by advertising reveue alone.

There are no doubt more ways, but these are the ones that came to mind first.

Most newspapers now have competitions so people can win money, plus putting in tokens to collect towards getting something you don't really want. They make you collect tokens from both the daily and weekend papers so you have to keep buying. Some of the broadsheets have started producing their papers in a smaller, easier to use format and some give theirs away free (The Independent is being given away in a smaller form outside some London Tube Stations).

Sex ads, and it's a darn shame. Newspapers are dying, because the internet has surely taken over. Not many people are willing to pay for a newspaper when they can just go online and read it. One of our newspaper companies was just bought out and saved by another company. But I still say only a matter of time before it gets closed down for good. They're just buying time.

I'm going out on a limb here, you go ahead and prove me wrong if you can:

Newspapers were bought by parties who had no interest in maintaining or increasing readership, so they've done a minimum. The result is falling sales, falling numbers of papers per city, falling readership. This has been done despite the loss of money, because money matters less than politics to these very rich corporate interests.