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).
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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
Swaraaj Chauhan describes his two-decade-long stint as a full-time journalist as eventful, purposeful, and full of joy and excitement. In 1993 he could foresee a different work culture appearing on the horizon, and decided to devote full time to teaching journalism (also, partly, with a desire to give back to the community from where he had enriched himself so much.)
Alongside, he worked for about a year in 1993 for the US State Department’s SPAN magazine, a nearly five-decade-old art and culture monthly magazine promoting US-India relations. It gave him an excellent opportunity to learn about things American, plus the pleasure of playing tennis in the lavish American embassy compound in the heart of New Delhi.
In !995 he joined WWF-India as a full-time media and environment education consultant and worked there for five years travelling a great deal, including to Husum in Germany as a part of the international team to formulate WWF’s Eco-tourism policy.
He taught journalism to honors students in a college affiliated to the University of Delhi, as also at the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication where he lectured on “Development Journalism” to mid-career journalists/Information officers from the SAARC, African, East European and Latin American countries, for eight years.
In 2004 the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) selected him as a Trainer/Mentor for India under a European Union project. In 2008/09 He completed another European Union-funded project for the BBC WST related to Disaster Management and media coverage in two eastern States in India — West Bengal and Orissa.
Last year, he spent a couple of months in Australia and enjoyed trekking, and also taught for a while at the University of South Australia.
Recently, he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Studies at Chitkara University in Chandigarh, a beautiful city in North India designed by the famous Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students there.
He loves trekking, especially in the hills, and never misses an opportunity to play a game of tennis. The Western and Indian classical music are always within his reach for instant relaxation.
And last, but not least, is his firm belief in the power of the positive thought to heal oneself and others.