Print Editors: “Future News Online & Free”
A large number of newspaper editors believe that the most common platform for news in the future will be online – and not print. Also, many think the majority of news will be free in the future. These and other interesting findings were revealed in a worldwide survey, “Newsroom Barometer,” released in May and conducted by Zogby International for the Paris-based World Editors Forum and Reuters.
Nearly 700 editors and senior news executives from 120 countries were interviewed online. The goal of this annual survey “is to conduct a Newsroom Barometer to compare and contrast the newspaper industry’s trends over a longer period of time.” A near majority of the 713 respondents were editors-in-chief (320), and there were 120 managing editors. Three quarters of respondents were male, underlining a still existent gender gap among top newspaper editorial positions.
Two-thirds of respondents came from regional or local papers, compared to a third from national or international titles. Many editors from smaller newspapers participated in this year’s survey. Nearly half of respondents worked for papers with a print circulation of less than 50,000 copies. 19% of respondents worked for papers with a circulation superior to 200,000 copies.
The poll was conducted in eight languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian and Japanese).
For details regarding the topics mentioned below please click here…
Part 1: Presentation – main results, the integrated newsroom will be the norm
Part 2: Multimedia, multi-skilled and integrated
Part 3: The future of the press
Part 4: Who participated in the survey?
Part 5: Comments by John Zogby and WEF President George Brock
Part 6: Threats to newspapers, areas of investment, more results
