Talk:Online newspaper

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Soft copy?
I think this is a case of different British and American usage, but I'm baffled by the "soft copy" terminology in this mess of an article. It seems to be different than a traditional newspaper, but also different than an online-only paper. ("Soft copy" in the US usually means online only, not printed.) The description in the text makes no sense to me. Can anybody help? - DavidWBrooks 00:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Just read you post. Agree, it is a problem. Soft copy in the UK is now often thought as online copy, but can it can be related to any form of electronic copy, not just web related. Also soft copy can refer to things like Teletext. This will be hard to sort out I think, but will be fun to look at --81.129.235.13 (talk) 19:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)appleman - Martin, sorry not yet registerd

Over the last few weeks I have taken a look at this. It looks like it is a change in the way the word/s are used. The thesaurus has it down as:-

Noun 1. soft copy - (computer science) matter that is in a form that a computer can store or display it on a computer screen; "he sent them soft copy of the report"

Yahoo has a good section on it:- http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070509092349AAAB9IX

I think the 'online newspaper' says it is in a newspaper format where as soft copy could be any form of information. I could be wrong. Good question though.... --Anappleadaykeepsthedocaway (talk) 12:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Ranking by popularity
Hi,

It's a pity that there is no information about the ranking of online newspapers by daily/monthly/annual unique visitors. Is any organisation registering this?

El Comandante (talk) 10:38, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Newspapers specifically
It seems obvious that the article should be limited to (reliable and notable) newspaper websites. On that basis, it is surely too great a fudge to include a list of "online news websites" which include Yahoo! News, Google News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, and NewsX. At the same time, hundreds of genuine newspaper websites worldwide ar NOT listed! I'm suggesting that the list is inappropriate and should simply be scrapped as unworkable. Bjenks (talk) 02:29, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Differentiate online newspapers vs. news sites
This page was created in 2007 and it shows: It seems ludicrous in 2022 to label every site publishing news on the Internet as an "online newspaper," whether or not they have any historical (or current) connection to an actual print newspaper. Wikipedia currently has no page for "News website," "News site," or similar — they all redirect to this "Online newspapers" page. Among the things that lumps into "online newspapers": Drudge Report, NBCNews.com, Meduza, BuzzFeed News, The Daily Wire, Rappler, MinnPost, Raw Story, Sputnik (news agency), Chalkbeat, TheBlaze, and Noozhawk — none of which would be fairly described as an "online newspaper" and all of which could be considered "news sites" or "news websites." I propose creating a new article dedicated to news websites, taking some material from here, and refocusing this page on the online versions of print newspapers. Flaggingwill (talk) 13:42, 30 October 2022 (UTC)