Readers and Viewers

AFFLUENT AMERICANS ARE READING MORE consumer magazines and using the Internet for certain business transactions much more in 2006 than they did just a year ago, according to the Mendelsohn Affluent Survey, an annual study investigating the habits of Americans with income exceeding $85,000 a year. The news for print publications was especially encouraging, according to Mitch Lurin, the president of...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court has ordered Google Inc. to stop reproducing articles from French-speaking newspapers in the news section of one of its Belgian websites, a local press organisation said. The complaint against the world's most popular Internet search engine was lodged by Copiepresse, an organisation which manages copyright for the Belgian French and German-speaking press. The...

PARIS — The end could be near for Libération, the newspaper founded by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and members of the extreme political left. After years of falling readership and advertising, the paper’s largest shareholder, Edouard de Rothschild, has stopped paying operating costs and, according to Pierre Haski, deputy editor of the newspaper, salaries have been frozen for October. “On Sept...

It was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, is an icon of the left and a keystone of the recent cultural and political history of France. But now Liberation, the iconic Paris-based newspaper, is facing a financial crisis that could change it forever or even force its closure. One of the few beneficiaries of the crisis are the bars and cafes of the Haut Marais quarter of Paris where the newspaper is based...

PARIS: Help Wanted: Aging former Maoists seek wealthy industrialist to help finance and lead modernization of money-losing French daily newspaper. Capitalist approach welcome, but profit not expected. Libération, the newspaper founded by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and members of the extreme political left, says the end is nigh. The paper's largest shareholder, Edouard de Rothschild, a member...

Penn State University still offers classes in journalism and Ford Risley, the head of the journalism department, tells students that exciting changes are happening in the newspaper business where traditionally print-focused publications are posting stories online, setting up blogs and learning to podcast. Yet living in interesting times isn't always the easiest thing to do as evidenced by the...

According to the National Readership Survey, the number of readers of newspapers has remained more or less unchanged. Although the readership figures of dailies are generally on a slight decline, no statistically significant changes have happened between September 2005 and the spring of 2006, verifies research director Marjo Malik from Taloustutkimus, a privately-owned market research company. The...

MODERN newspapers face some tough decisions, but there is still a bright future for those that remember why they exist in the first place. The Australian passionately rejects the view of the London-based weekly, The Economist, that newspapers face bleak prospects. On the contrary, good newspapers that know how to break news, are clear in what they stand for and have the confidence to challenge and...

In what could signal a sweeping change in the way magazine advertising is bought and sold, Time is seriously considering the elimination of its rate base, the circulation it guarantees to advertisers. While the Time Inc. newsweekly would not be the first publication to do so, it would be by far the most prominent, as one of the magazine industry’s leading titles, and the largest-circ newsweekly...

A newspaper war is about to begin on the streets of London, involving Rupert Murdoch's News International and Associated Newspapers, owners of the Evening Standard. Londoners, for a while at least, will have a choice of three evening papers, two of them free. This has caused excitement in the metropolitan press, particularly on the media pages. But the real story has been missed. Across most of...