Newspapers are still one of the most common sources of news in the world where billions of newspapers all around the world are being published and printed everyday. Even with online versions of newspapers on many big publishers websites the physical newspapers sell just as often as they did ten and twenty years ago. This fact may be attributed to the idea of the growing population while the actual sales of the paper reduce in number in ratio to the amount of people in the world today.

The Berita Harian published in Malaysia is one of the more common newspapers to be circulated in the country of Malaysia. The newspaper is defined as being a regularly scheduled publication that involves gathering news globally, nationally and locally. Advertising in newspapers is the key to their success. Without advertisers to pay for their advertisements the papers would not make any money or profit. To keep profits high the papers are printed on low grade paper and using cheap ink known as newsprint.

Other interests that might appear in newspapers like the Berita Harian are stories such as politics, culture, entertainment and fashion plus events, business, society and sports news. A comic strip section or an editorial section may also be included in the newspaper. Horoscopes and crosswords are also a popular item in this type of newspaper however the news and weather are the most important to people. According to the Wikipedia the industrial revolution at the beginning of the 1900s was the time when the printing press enabled many people to be able to purchase a copy of the original newspapers.