The US presidential elections and a bumper celebrity news month, with the death of Heath Ledger and Britney Spears' ongoing problems, produced record traffic for the UK's newspaper websites during January.

Print texts are in decline is the issue covered here as newspaper websites are now 'producing record traffic for the UK's newspaper websites'. Newspapers have expanded onto the web. One reason for its success is that information is always up-to-date on the web, whereas a print text newspaper can only publish articles a day after. We now live in a society that is fast and we all want to recieve infomration quickly and not have to wait and this is what the web provides that a orginial newspaper cannot.

Celebrification of Britney Spears is also evident as the newspapers are all discussing 'Britney Spears ongoing problems' rather than her talents.

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/21/abcs.digitalmedia