Write A Paragraph On The Importance Of Reading Newspaper

Write a paragraph in about 100 words on the importance of reading newspaper.

[You can use these points / hints as an outline: Points: powerful medium – provides information – benefits of reading newspaper – demerits – conclusion]

Importance of Reading Newspaper

Newspaper is one of the best mediums to get information about the surroundings. *Not only of state or country rather we can get to know about various parts of the world by reading newspaper. It provides us various kinds of information on vast range of topics. We get informed about sports, movies, politics, news of the whole country / state (current affairs) and lots of other things. Reading newspaper keeps us updated.* Though newspaper has many good effects but it has some demerits too. Newspaper sometime contains some sensitive things which leaves lot of adverse effects on the readers. Thus, it fills the innocence minds of the readers especially children with guilt. Though newspaper has some adverse effects but we should always consider taking only the good things present in anything. With proper supervision, newspaper is and will continue to be a mine of knowledge.

[*Newspapers can be classified into different categories (i.e. - local newspapers, regional newspapers, national newspaper) based upon the field of the news collection and publication.

Local newspapers give us detailed news of what's going around us. It contains news of different local incidents and events - such as any cultural event and so on. The news published in these newspapers may have connections with national interest.

Regional newspaper is published for a wide range of readers speaking the same language. These newspapers are distributed among a major part of a state or throughout a state. It gives us information about more significant incidents and events that are socially or politically or economically important.

National newspapers are the newspapers which are read by people throughout a whole country. These newspapers cover news of national interest. It does not only contain intra-national news but also contains international news also. It's a great source to know what's happening throughout the globe.]

* Not only that, one of the biggest contributions of newspaper in our daily life is that, it enriches our vocabulary and thus it strengthens our skill on a language. With the help of newspaper, we can also enrich our general knowledge.

Please Note: In this post, we have discussed a paragraph about importance of reading newspaper. This is mainly intended to be studied by students studying in Class VII - XII. However, if you are not a student studying in those aforementioned classes, you are also warmly welcomed to read and study the paragraph throughout.

We have been unable to write the paragraph to our desired length as we have tried to keep it within about 120-130. That's why in case you want to lengthen the paragraph, we have added few words to include and 'have placed them after the end of the main paragraph.

Students who want to write a paragraph of the topic - The Importance of Reading Newspaper (In Our Daily Life) within 120-130 words can go with the main paragraph. But, who are asked to write paragraph of the aforesaid topic within 150 words should include the additional lines posted after the main paragraph to make it a little bit more lengthy.

We hope this paragraph will help you in your studies and you can successfully write a paragraph on the importance of reading newspaper with the help of the paragraph provided above.

This question has appeared in the question paper of Model Activity Task of Class X for the student of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and hence this has been marked as an important question for the upcoming Madhyamik / Secondary exam.