GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE NEWSPAPERS

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIA

IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010, 26 – 28 February, 2010

Dr. Sumeer Gul&

Tariq Ahmad Shah

Methodology

Results &

Discussion

USA, 2,402 (41.51%)

UK, 306 (5.29%)

Canada, 327 (5.65%)

India, 260 (4.49%)

GLOBAL VIEW

STATE WISE DISTRIBUTION

Ma-ha-

rash-tra;

13.08

Delhi; 9.23

Gujarat; 7.31 Karnataka; 7.31West Bengal; 6.92 Tamil

Nadu; 6.54

Andra Pradesh; 5.77

Jammu and Kashmir; 5.00

Kerala; 5.00As-

sam; 4.62M.P,

3.46U.P, 3.46

Orissa

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1.9

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Goa;

1.5

4

Others; 9.59

LANGUAGE

Monolingual241, 92.69%

Bilingual17, 6.54%

Multilingual2, 0.77%

LANGUAGE

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