Readers and Viewers

News audiences in the United States (US) are discarding television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, a new study has claimed. A man surfs the web at an internet cafe. News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend...

The American public continues to fault news organisations for a number of perceived failures, with solid majorities criticising them for political bias, inaccuracy and failing to acknowledge mistakes. Some of the harshest indictments of the press now come from the growing segment that relies on the Internet as its main source for national and international news. The Internet news audience –...

NEW YORK: The Associated Press will be ending its highly-touted “asap” service in October, E&P has learned. Staffers were notified this morning about its October 31 demise as a stand alone. It’s not known if any layoffs will come. About 200 newspapers subscribed to the service. It was launched in 2005 as a response to the growth of blogs and so-called youth tabs, and had 24 staff members. It...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- It started with the help wanted ads. Now real estate ads are tailing off. But as the shift in advertising from the printed page to the Internet continues, newspaper executives believe there's hope for their product. "There has never been a greater appetite for news," said Reid Ashe, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Media General Inc. "People are...

Data compiled by Nielsen//NetRatings, on behalf of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), showed that, on average, just under 40 percent of all active Internet users visited newspaper websites during Q2 2007. That amounts to over 59 million people and a 7.7 percent increase on Q2 2006 “As the industry continues to expand its digital portfolio, readers are visiting newspaper Web sites in...

The free newspaper business in Israel is about to become a battleground as it appears that no less than three free Hebrew dailies will begin publishing within the next few weeks. Joining the incumbent Israeli, published by the businessman Shlomo Ben Tzvi, will be publications from American billionaire Sheldon Adelson; a joint team of Eli Azur, the owner of The Jerusalem Post, and Dudi Weissman...

Newspapers in Bulgaria are struggling to avoid their own obit as circulation keeps on shrinking under the pressure of rivals from other outlets, official data shows. Circulation numbers for last year stood at 325.7 million copies in total against 442.5 million in 2000, according to figures from the National Statistics Institute. The gloomy trend does not seem to discourage publishers as the number...

Online news and information will supplant television network news as the leading news source over the next five years, but newspapers will remain a vital source on their own, and can become dominant if they successfully integrate online delivery as a part of what they offer the public, a new poll has revelaed. The findings are from a Harris Poll conducted last month by Harris Interactive in...

Newspaper circulations worldwide rose 2.3 per cent in 2006 while newspaper advertising revenues showed substantial gains, the World Association of Newspapers announced Monday. WAN said global newspaper sales were up 2.3 per cent over the year, and had increased 9.48 per cent over the past five years. Newspaper sales increased year-on-year in Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, with North America...

New York City’s two free daily tabloids usually compete by seeing how many papers they can shove into the hands of subway riders. Now they are going head-to-head on a different platform — a digital one. Metro New York, owned by Metro International, is planning a new Web site that may improve its position against its rival, amNew York, which is owned by the Tribune Company. AmNew York already has a...