Media Cache - For U.S. Newspaper Industry, an Example in Germany? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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U.S. publishers come in for withering criticism in a report this month from the German Newspaper Publishers’ Association.
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While daily newspaper circulation in the United States fell 27 percent from 1998 through 2008, it slipped 19 percent in Germany. While fewer than half of Americans read newspapers, more than 70 percent of Germans do. While newspapers’ revenues have plunged in the United States, they have held steady in Germany since 2004.
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Most German newspapers are owned by family concerns or other small companies with local roots,
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