What is the purpose of a newspaper?
Options:
- motivate
- announce
- inform
- communicate
- elongate
Let's think carefully first. Step-by-step reasoning process:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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Newspaper has news which when people read get informed about. Newspaper is given for reading to inform people about daily affairs. So the final answer is inform.