Global Newspaper Circulation Falls For Second Consecutive Year

Global newspaper circulation fell in 2010 for the second consecutive year according to the World Press Trends report released on Thursday. The report recorded fallen circulation for the first time ever in 2009.

While World Press Trends reported a 2% circulation decline in 2010, the news was not all bad. The decline demonstrated a shift in news consumption habits among consumers, rather than a steer away from newspapers. According to the Journalism UK site, "the report added that 'what has been lost to print has been more than made up by digital newspaper readers,'" and also stated that "internet consumption is increasing worldwide."

News junkies used the internet to view various news sources and news mediums which made loyal readers more scarce than in years past.

North America reported the largest decline in newspaper circulation while circulation in the Asia Pacific region grew by 7 percent. According to World Press Trends, Japan was the worldwide leader in newspaper sales.

Though newspapers introduced pay walls and the Wall Street Journal reported that the online advertising business was expected to become the second largest "advertising medium by revenue," the problem remains that newspapers were still more profitable as print publications than in their online form.

Comments

[edejan]

11:08 PM on 10/14/2011

The bizarre title to this story sounds like a bad google translation from Japanese.

[maxfax]

10:58 PM on 10/14/2011

Runing papers? Who, what?

[blue in wv]

08:24 PM on 10/14/2011

I was always a newspaper subscriber my entire adult life. When I moved to this small place, again I subscribed to the local paper. However, the opinion page was a cold rehash of Faux News, written mostly by their Pundits. Local coverage didn't even try to be fair. Local stories all had the RW point of view, or spin. I wrote the editor on more than one occasion. Nothing. So I cancelled my subscription. Seemed like nobody cared about that, since I wasn't someone they were writing for.

How can my story be put together with the bigger story of newspaper circulation being down, and come up with a win-win solution? (That is a redundant question.)

[Jazz88105]

07:20 PM on 10/14/2011

Spell check folks ! Ruining not runing.

[InfinteShibumi]

06:45 PM on 10/14/2011

Runing newspapers? Someone's divination tools are a wee bit off!

[Shesme]

06:19 PM on 10/14/2011

The headline, with typo, reads "Promiscuous News Junkies Runing Newspapers." Hmmm. They must be talking about loose Hobbits at The Middle Earth News and The Shire Daily Press.

[Telemachus]

05:55 PM on 10/14/2011

Illiterate Headline Riters Runing Huffpo

[joyf1]

05:42 PM on 10/14/2011

The headline says, "runing". What is that??

[olafTheAwesome]

06:18 PM on 10/14/2011

That's what promiscuous news junkies do, when they are not ruining newspapers. You should try it some day :)

[joyf1]

06:29 PM on 10/14/2011

I thought it was ruining, but then didn't see the first 'i'. Runing would have been picked up by spell check, right? Here's an article about journalism!! LOL!