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The face of news is undergoing a massive change at the moment. Both newspapers and tv stations are quickly losing viewers to the web. The net now allows for far superior news coverage for consumers as well as the traditional news businesses are failing to stay relevant and also to keep up with the demands of the readers.

One of the main benefits of the internet will be the ability to personalise news based on the interests of the reader. The dynamic nature of the web means that as the page is opened by the reader it's contents may be pulled from a variety of places in order that each person will have their very own version of the news. The days of everybody opening the newspaper to read about the football are numbered. Instead each person will choose which sections they are going to read about determined by their interests. Only those who are considering football shall have a football section, others may have a section for Phoenix Traffic, more information, dance or karate or sailing or what ever their interests are. People with interests in these niche topics will feel more linked to their interests than ever before and also the amount of news available to such people shall increase as the need for these niches increases.

Conversely, many mainstream newspapers have moved onto the internet without understanding the power of the net. Their web pages are merely an electronic version of their traditional paper copy. They only have a limited range of categories that they cover and readers continue to be forced to read the subjects that the editors deem to be 'news'. In addition traditional newspapers have very poor coverage of several niche categories (on the rare occasions that they do cover these subjects). Writers assigned to the task often have very little understand of the category. These reporters write for the reader that has no understanding of the topic and make frequent mistakes and often get terminology wrong. Niche news sources provide much better coverage of these niche subjects as the writers tend to be passionate about the topic they cover. As a result they can be knowledgeable and up-to-date with the topic as well as can provide interested readers with a far superior and well written article.

The future of news is in personalised news sites that collect the most effective news from niche websites. These sites will be able to provide news that's both high quality and that is catered to the interests of the reader. As people become more aware of these news sites, the exodus from traditional media companies to these new personalised sites will become even faster.