Newspapers provide education and information through current news, editorials, and features articles alongside local business advertisements. They are a source of social interaction and help readers identify with their community by reporting on local stories. Additionally, newspapers entertain readers with horoscopes, crosswords, and advice columns, and allow escape from daily life by informing readers about other people and events.

1. USES AND
GRATIFICATIONS OF
NEWSPAPERS

2. Education and Information
Newspapers contain current
news, editorials, feature
articles, and usually advertising.
Local newspapers will enclose
relevant news stories and local
business’s advertisements within
that area.

3. Social Interaction and Personal Identity
Newspapers inform the public about what is happening in
the world, country, city, town or borough. Newspapers are a
source for social interaction which enables us to relate to
society.
A local newspaper helps a reader identify themselves by
relating to the stories.

4. Entertainment
Newspapers entertain readers by
including horoscopes, crosswords
and agony aunts

5. Escape
While we read about other
peoples lives and events we
are taken out of daily day to
day life. Newspapers provide
a distraction in a similar way
that reality TV shows do.