Britain’s newspaper industry on the slide

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I just got sent a press release from the OECD on "The future of news and the Internet" which contains this fascinating graph showing estimated newspaper publishing market decline...

I just got sent a press release from the OECD on “The future of news and the Internet” which contains this fascinating graph showing estimated newspaper publishing market decline in OECD countries, 2007-2009 (in per cent).

The report says:

“About 20 out of 30 OECD countries face declining newspaper readership, with significant decreases in some OECD countries. Newspaper readership is usually lower among younger people who tend to attribute less importance to print media…

“large country-by-country and title-by-title differences and the data currently do not lend themselves to make the case for “the death of the newspaper”, in particular if non-OECD countries and potential positive effects of the economic recovery are taken into account.”

It clearly shows that the UK, second only to the US, has seen the worst decline in newspaper publishing in the world.

The report sets out two scenarios for the future of news creation and distribution:

1. One extreme is that online and other new forms of more decentralised news will liberate readers from partisan news monopolies which have tended to become more concentrated and to dominate the production and access to news.

2. The other extreme is that the demise of the traditional news media is with us (partially caused by the rise of the Internet), and with it an important foundation for democratic societies is at risk

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7 Responses to “Britain’s newspaper industry on the slide”

  1. NOTORYUS

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  2. Emma Rubach

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  3. Don Lands

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  5. Mr. Sensible

    This is how the Times have tried to justify their new paywall.

    It won’t work.

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