Newspapers are important sources of information about current and on-going world issues. However, they are not necessarily good or reliable providers of information. A reliable newspaper must have some useful and necessary characteristics. I found seven characteristics that are useful in a reliable newspaper source. News coverage is important in every newspaper. Newspaper should have many different kind of local news and world news for different kind of people, because people want to know what's …showed first 75 words of 332 total…

…showed last 75 words of 332 total…not an opinion or point of view from the author. You can check the author's credentials in order to find the information reliable or not. The last characteristic is reputation. A reliable newspaper must have a good reputation. A good reputation depends on the history of the newspaper and the opinion from the readers. Some people pick newspapers base on their reputation, if reputation is good, then the information in the newspaper must be reliable.