Newspaper is a publication that presents and comments on the news. Newspapers play an important role in shaping public opinion and informing people of current events.
Newspapers have certain advantages over other mass media- magazines, tv and radio. Newspaper can cover more news and much detail than tv or radio newcast can do. There are about 1700 daily and 7500 weekly newspapers in the US. Daily newspapers print world, national and local news. Many dailies are morning paper, others are afternoon papers. Sunday issues of the dailies are usually larger than weekday ones.
Weekly newspaper serve usually for smaller areas. Most weeklies do not print world or national news.