The advent of typewriters was a big progress in the history of newspaper publishing and personal computers and word processing software made newspaper reporting easier. Now news editors in their desire for active readership introduced the principle of breaking news on the spur of the moment. By suppling laptops, digital cameras and audio recorders to local correspondents for quicker, effective and a better coverage of local news.
Once local correspondents are able to write their stories, send it to the newspaper intranet editor, the story is edited and made available to online readers in a couple of minutes. It may not even be mentioned in the print edition of the same paper and directly or indirectly, newspaper readers are developing online reading habits.
