The study presented here was conducted between September 2006 and March 2007 at the Media Science Faculty of Trier University. The research project was realised with the support of Ifra and the Axel Springer publishing corporation.
World Press Trends 2007 is the most complete overview of newspaper markets worldwide since the first edition published in 1987.
In the next ten to fifteen years people in Northern America and Europe will look different in the truest sense of the word.
2007-06-04. Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist who was imprisoned after Yahoo provided information to the Chinese authorities that led to his arrest, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), to be presented at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum next year in Cape Town, South Africa, on 4 June, 2007.
2006 was for many of the world’s newspapers a turning point. Web revenues continued to increase, while print revenues and circulation suffered gradual declines in much of the developed world.
The constant bombardment of change in the newspaper market has resulted in newspaper publishers striving to sustain a balance between delivering quality editorial products and running newsrooms efficiently whilst trying to keep costs down.
Overall, the objectives of this report are to improve measurement accuracy and precision for colour and density, to improve inter-instrument agreement and to maintain repeatability for hand-held spectrophoto meters and densitometers.
As competition escalates for share of advertising spend, it is clear that newspapers need to optimise their advertising operations for greater profitability and effectiveness. Executing best practices in advertising can make the difference between exceeding the target and failing.
This yearbook serves as a digital compass for the world’s media strategists, by providing more than 160 data sets from more than 35 sources, and analysis, about the revenue-making and media usage trends for the Internet and mobile industries, and compared with that of established media.
In the short time that Trends in Newsrooms has been appearing, vast shifts have taken place. Online and print journalism work side by side in newsrooms; reporters and editors increasingly do both at once.
The newspaper industry is not alone in its quest to transform itself in order to meet the challenges of new audiences and new competitors.
Most newspaper publishers want to save time and money. Software can help them realise operational efficiencies, with the added potential to build their companies by expanding knowledge of their market and consumers.