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like online news, are about entertainment, and if they are not about entertainment they contain some type of news. They are both just about being a quick easy read. "In terms of reading, e-newspapers can be read on a small screen in a horizontal scrolling format, whereas traditional newspaper information is organized vertically on large pages. With the latter, it is easy to scan an entire page in seconds; that is difficult when reading on screen despite the fact that online newspapers usually have an index facilitating links to other pages and related stories" (Gunter, Barrie News and the Net Mahwah, New Jersey & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2003). The New York Times is more established because it is not as colorful. It is plain and simple without all of the dazzling affects around the stories to distract the reader. Online news has ads and links to other entertainment stories that lure the reader away. The New York Times, on the Front Page or the Metro Section for example, do not have anything to take attention away from the story.

So the design of newspapers and online news websites are presented differently because of the attention span of readers, the sentence and paragraph structure, the word choice and the formality of the newspaper and online news source, among other factors. The only thing that remains the same is the fact that they both distribute news to the world.

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