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Infostration The Daily Show STATUS REPORT RUSSIA The country in the world with the most time zones (eleven) is also the one with the most newspapers in Europe. Remarkably, though, Russia is the place where people spend less time reading: only 9 minutes a day. The two facts are unrelated We scoured the WAN-IFRA annual state-of-the-industry report (all 1263 pages of it!) for these little-known facts DAILY CIRCULATION 5.72% *Numbers shown in thousands AUSTRALIA A OCEANIA AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERCA EUROPE ASIA about our profession. INFOSTRATION BY CARLOS MONTEIRO 520,662 520.038 516.628 TEXTS BY LUÍS MIRANDA INEWSPAPER, LISBON, PORTUGAL, DESIGNED BY CARRIE HOOVER 333.374 336.645 340128 COUNTRIES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES 504,308 315.870 CHINA 25 488,654 INDIA 22 300.7 JAPAN 17 UNITED KINGOOM 6 KOREA REPUBLIC OF 6 THAILAND 4 USA 4 EGYPT 2 INDONESIA 20 PHILIPPINES 2 RUSSIA 2 . SZECHUAN PAPER Print media is big in Asia and growing stronger. Newspapers are as ubiq- uitous as the Szechuan pepper. In the last five years, newspapers grew 5.72% - those readers must be hungry. ALGERIA AUSTRIA 11 ARMENIA FRANCE 1 This former republic of the Soviet Union committed to get their population's hands dirty with newspaper ink. The newspapers there grew 140%, the biggest percentage growth in the last five years, but don't get too excited. Where there were once five newspapers, now there are 12. GERMANY 11 11 NETHERLANDS POLAND 11 11 TAWAN TURKEY LANGUAGES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES but CHINESE 26 JAPANESE 17 ENGLISH 15 HINDI 8 KOREAN 6 THAI 4 ARABIC 3 TAMIL 3 B FILIPINO 2 . INDONESIAN 2 MONGOLIA If by chance you hap- pen to be having prob- lems calling your friend in Mongolia, there's a chance he's reading the newspaper and not willing to be interrupted. And he'll take a while: 72 GERMAN 2I MALAYALAM 2 RUSSIAN 2I BENGALU 11 DUTOH 1 FRENCH 1 I ICELAND GUAURATI 1 MARATHI 1 POLISH 1 TELUGU 1| The nation that called a volcano Eyjafjallajokull must have either: a) huge readership statis- tics, or b) a very wicked minutes is the average time spent reading the news there. TURKISH 1I 95322 93.640 sense of humor. The correct answer is A. Ice- landic newspapers have 96% reach among the adult audience. More on that volcano on page 9. 94750 92440 National dally newspaper consumption 82226 MINUTES/DAY (2009) TOP 3 MONGOLIA AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 68 Things have been quiet down under for the last five years. This is sad because we would re- ally like to make a joke about the "Aussie press bounding like a kanga- roo." With this data we can only deduce that the newspaper business is steadier than a koala in a eucalyptus tree. Which is not that funny, we have to admit. 07015 65.890 64470 MA LA LA 62.021 50895 64 TURY SEYCHELLES Flve years ago they had one newspaper, now they have two. Say- ing that the Seychelles doubled the number of newspapers must be a great way to impress the nelghboring islands, such as Zanzibar, Mauritius and Reunion. BOTTOM 3 (19 CZECH REPUBLIC 13.759 14.543 14.800 14.133 13.441 10.003 10,572 1396 11.944 9202 SPAIN 3,4953 A64 3,439 3,351 3300 SOURCE: WAN-IFRA- WORLD PRESS TRENDS 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 RUSSIA Infostration The Daily Show STATUS REPORT RUSSIA The country in the world with the most time zones (eleven) is also the one with the most newspapers in Europe. Remarkably, though, Russia is the place where people spend less time reading: only 9 minutes a day. The two facts are unrelated We scoured the WAN-IFRA annual state-of-the-industry report (all 1263 pages of it!) for these little-known facts DAILY CIRCULATION 5.72% *Numbers shown in thousands AUSTRALIA A OCEANIA AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERCA EUROPE ASIA about our profession. INFOSTRATION BY CARLOS MONTEIRO 520,662 520.038 516.628 TEXTS BY LUÍS MIRANDA INEWSPAPER, LISBON, PORTUGAL, DESIGNED BY CARRIE HOOVER 333.374 336.645 340128 COUNTRIES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES 504,308 315.870 CHINA 25 488,654 INDIA 22 300.7 JAPAN 17 UNITED KINGOOM 6 KOREA REPUBLIC OF 6 THAILAND 4 USA 4 EGYPT 2 INDONESIA 20 PHILIPPINES 2 RUSSIA 2 . SZECHUAN PAPER Print media is big in Asia and growing stronger. Newspapers are as ubiq- uitous as the Szechuan pepper. In the last five years, newspapers grew 5.72% - those readers must be hungry. ALGERIA AUSTRIA 11 ARMENIA FRANCE 1 This former republic of the Soviet Union committed to get their population's hands dirty with newspaper ink. The newspapers there grew 140%, the biggest percentage growth in the last five years, but don't get too excited. Where there were once five newspapers, now there are 12. GERMANY 11 11 NETHERLANDS POLAND 11 11 TAWAN TURKEY LANGUAGES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES but CHINESE 26 JAPANESE 17 ENGLISH 15 HINDI 8 KOREAN 6 THAI 4 ARABIC 3 TAMIL 3 B FILIPINO 2 . INDONESIAN 2 MONGOLIA If by chance you hap- pen to be having prob- lems calling your friend in Mongolia, there's a chance he's reading the newspaper and not willing to be interrupted. And he'll take a while: 72 GERMAN 2I MALAYALAM 2 RUSSIAN 2I BENGALU 11 DUTOH 1 FRENCH 1 I ICELAND GUAURATI 1 MARATHI 1 POLISH 1 TELUGU 1| The nation that called a volcano Eyjafjallajokull must have either: a) huge readership statis- tics, or b) a very wicked minutes is the average time spent reading the news there. TURKISH 1I 95322 93.640 sense of humor. The correct answer is A. Ice- landic newspapers have 96% reach among the adult audience. More on that volcano on page 9. 94750 92440 National dally newspaper consumption 82226 MINUTES/DAY (2009) TOP 3 MONGOLIA AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 68 Things have been quiet down under for the last five years. This is sad because we would re- ally like to make a joke about the "Aussie press bounding like a kanga- roo." With this data we can only deduce that the newspaper business is steadier than a koala in a eucalyptus tree. Which is not that funny, we have to admit. 07015 65.890 64470 MA LA LA 62.021 50895 64 TURY SEYCHELLES Flve years ago they had one newspaper, now they have two. Say- ing that the Seychelles doubled the number of newspapers must be a great way to impress the nelghboring islands, such as Zanzibar, Mauritius and Reunion. BOTTOM 3 (19 CZECH REPUBLIC 13.759 14.543 14.800 14.133 13.441 10.003 10,572 1396 11.944 9202 SPAIN 3,4953 A64 3,439 3,351 3300 SOURCE: WAN-IFRA- WORLD PRESS TRENDS 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 RUSSIA Infostration The Daily Show STATUS REPORT RUSSIA The country in the world with the most time zones (eleven) is also the one with the most newspapers in Europe. Remarkably, though, Russia is the place where people spend less time reading: only 9 minutes a day. The two facts are unrelated We scoured the WAN-IFRA annual state-of-the-industry report (all 1263 pages of it!) for these little-known facts DAILY CIRCULATION 5.72% *Numbers shown in thousands AUSTRALIA A OCEANIA AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERCA EUROPE ASIA about our profession. INFOSTRATION BY CARLOS MONTEIRO 520,662 520.038 516.628 TEXTS BY LUÍS MIRANDA INEWSPAPER, LISBON, PORTUGAL, DESIGNED BY CARRIE HOOVER 333.374 336.645 340128 COUNTRIES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES 504,308 315.870 CHINA 25 488,654 INDIA 22 300.7 JAPAN 17 UNITED KINGOOM 6 KOREA REPUBLIC OF 6 THAILAND 4 USA 4 EGYPT 2 INDONESIA 20 PHILIPPINES 2 RUSSIA 2 . SZECHUAN PAPER Print media is big in Asia and growing stronger. Newspapers are as ubiq- uitous as the Szechuan pepper. In the last five years, newspapers grew 5.72% - those readers must be hungry. ALGERIA AUSTRIA 11 ARMENIA FRANCE 1 This former republic of the Soviet Union committed to get their population's hands dirty with newspaper ink. The newspapers there grew 140%, the biggest percentage growth in the last five years, but don't get too excited. Where there were once five newspapers, now there are 12. GERMANY 11 11 NETHERLANDS POLAND 11 11 TAWAN TURKEY LANGUAGES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES but CHINESE 26 JAPANESE 17 ENGLISH 15 HINDI 8 KOREAN 6 THAI 4 ARABIC 3 TAMIL 3 B FILIPINO 2 . INDONESIAN 2 MONGOLIA If by chance you hap- pen to be having prob- lems calling your friend in Mongolia, there's a chance he's reading the newspaper and not willing to be interrupted. And he'll take a while: 72 GERMAN 2I MALAYALAM 2 RUSSIAN 2I BENGALU 11 DUTOH 1 FRENCH 1 I ICELAND GUAURATI 1 MARATHI 1 POLISH 1 TELUGU 1| The nation that called a volcano Eyjafjallajokull must have either: a) huge readership statis- tics, or b) a very wicked minutes is the average time spent reading the news there. TURKISH 1I 95322 93.640 sense of humor. The correct answer is A. Ice- landic newspapers have 96% reach among the adult audience. More on that volcano on page 9. 94750 92440 National dally newspaper consumption 82226 MINUTES/DAY (2009) TOP 3 MONGOLIA AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 68 Things have been quiet down under for the last five years. This is sad because we would re- ally like to make a joke about the "Aussie press bounding like a kanga- roo." With this data we can only deduce that the newspaper business is steadier than a koala in a eucalyptus tree. Which is not that funny, we have to admit. 07015 65.890 64470 MA LA LA 62.021 50895 64 TURY SEYCHELLES Flve years ago they had one newspaper, now they have two. Say- ing that the Seychelles doubled the number of newspapers must be a great way to impress the nelghboring islands, such as Zanzibar, Mauritius and Reunion. BOTTOM 3 (19 CZECH REPUBLIC 13.759 14.543 14.800 14.133 13.441 10.003 10,572 1396 11.944 9202 SPAIN 3,4953 A64 3,439 3,351 3300 SOURCE: WAN-IFRA- WORLD PRESS TRENDS 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 RUSSIA Infostration The Daily Show STATUS REPORT RUSSIA The country in the world with the most time zones (eleven) is also the one with the most newspapers in Europe. Remarkably, though, Russia is the place where people spend less time reading: only 9 minutes a day. The two facts are unrelated We scoured the WAN-IFRA annual state-of-the-industry report (all 1263 pages of it!) for these little-known facts DAILY CIRCULATION 5.72% *Numbers shown in thousands AUSTRALIA A OCEANIA AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERCA EUROPE ASIA about our profession. INFOSTRATION BY CARLOS MONTEIRO 520,662 520.038 516.628 TEXTS BY LUÍS MIRANDA INEWSPAPER, LISBON, PORTUGAL, DESIGNED BY CARRIE HOOVER 333.374 336.645 340128 COUNTRIES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES 504,308 315.870 CHINA 25 488,654 INDIA 22 300.7 JAPAN 17 UNITED KINGOOM 6 KOREA REPUBLIC OF 6 THAILAND 4 USA 4 EGYPT 2 INDONESIA 20 PHILIPPINES 2 RUSSIA 2 . SZECHUAN PAPER Print media is big in Asia and growing stronger. Newspapers are as ubiq- uitous as the Szechuan pepper. In the last five years, newspapers grew 5.72% - those readers must be hungry. ALGERIA AUSTRIA 11 ARMENIA FRANCE 1 This former republic of the Soviet Union committed to get their population's hands dirty with newspaper ink. The newspapers there grew 140%, the biggest percentage growth in the last five years, but don't get too excited. Where there were once five newspapers, now there are 12. GERMANY 11 11 NETHERLANDS POLAND 11 11 TAWAN TURKEY LANGUAGES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES but CHINESE 26 JAPANESE 17 ENGLISH 15 HINDI 8 KOREAN 6 THAI 4 ARABIC 3 TAMIL 3 B FILIPINO 2 . INDONESIAN 2 MONGOLIA If by chance you hap- pen to be having prob- lems calling your friend in Mongolia, there's a chance he's reading the newspaper and not willing to be interrupted. And he'll take a while: 72 GERMAN 2I MALAYALAM 2 RUSSIAN 2I BENGALU 11 DUTOH 1 FRENCH 1 I ICELAND GUAURATI 1 MARATHI 1 POLISH 1 TELUGU 1| The nation that called a volcano Eyjafjallajokull must have either: a) huge readership statis- tics, or b) a very wicked minutes is the average time spent reading the news there. TURKISH 1I 95322 93.640 sense of humor. The correct answer is A. Ice- landic newspapers have 96% reach among the adult audience. More on that volcano on page 9. 94750 92440 National dally newspaper consumption 82226 MINUTES/DAY (2009) TOP 3 MONGOLIA AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 68 Things have been quiet down under for the last five years. This is sad because we would re- ally like to make a joke about the "Aussie press bounding like a kanga- roo." With this data we can only deduce that the newspaper business is steadier than a koala in a eucalyptus tree. Which is not that funny, we have to admit. 07015 65.890 64470 MA LA LA 62.021 50895 64 TURY SEYCHELLES Flve years ago they had one newspaper, now they have two. Say- ing that the Seychelles doubled the number of newspapers must be a great way to impress the nelghboring islands, such as Zanzibar, Mauritius and Reunion. BOTTOM 3 (19 CZECH REPUBLIC 13.759 14.543 14.800 14.133 13.441 10.003 10,572 1396 11.944 9202 SPAIN 3,4953 A64 3,439 3,351 3300 SOURCE: WAN-IFRA- WORLD PRESS TRENDS 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 RUSSIA Infostration The Daily Show STATUS REPORT RUSSIA The country in the world with the most time zones (eleven) is also the one with the most newspapers in Europe. Remarkably, though, Russia is the place where people spend less time reading: only 9 minutes a day. The two facts are unrelated We scoured the WAN-IFRA annual state-of-the-industry report (all 1263 pages of it!) for these little-known facts DAILY CIRCULATION 5.72% *Numbers shown in thousands AUSTRALIA A OCEANIA AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERCA EUROPE ASIA about our profession. INFOSTRATION BY CARLOS MONTEIRO 520,662 520.038 516.628 TEXTS BY LUÍS MIRANDA INEWSPAPER, LISBON, PORTUGAL, DESIGNED BY CARRIE HOOVER 333.374 336.645 340128 COUNTRIES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES 504,308 315.870 CHINA 25 488,654 INDIA 22 300.7 JAPAN 17 UNITED KINGOOM 6 KOREA REPUBLIC OF 6 THAILAND 4 USA 4 EGYPT 2 INDONESIA 20 PHILIPPINES 2 RUSSIA 2 . SZECHUAN PAPER Print media is big in Asia and growing stronger. Newspapers are as ubiq- uitous as the Szechuan pepper. In the last five years, newspapers grew 5.72% - those readers must be hungry. ALGERIA AUSTRIA 11 ARMENIA FRANCE 1 This former republic of the Soviet Union committed to get their population's hands dirty with newspaper ink. The newspapers there grew 140%, the biggest percentage growth in the last five years, but don't get too excited. Where there were once five newspapers, now there are 12. GERMANY 11 11 NETHERLANDS POLAND 11 11 TAWAN TURKEY LANGUAGES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES but CHINESE 26 JAPANESE 17 ENGLISH 15 HINDI 8 KOREAN 6 THAI 4 ARABIC 3 TAMIL 3 B FILIPINO 2 . INDONESIAN 2 MONGOLIA If by chance you hap- pen to be having prob- lems calling your friend in Mongolia, there's a chance he's reading the newspaper and not willing to be interrupted. And he'll take a while: 72 GERMAN 2I MALAYALAM 2 RUSSIAN 2I BENGALU 11 DUTOH 1 FRENCH 1 I ICELAND GUAURATI 1 MARATHI 1 POLISH 1 TELUGU 1| The nation that called a volcano Eyjafjallajokull must have either: a) huge readership statis- tics, or b) a very wicked minutes is the average time spent reading the news there. TURKISH 1I 95322 93.640 sense of humor. The correct answer is A. Ice- landic newspapers have 96% reach among the adult audience. More on that volcano on page 9. 94750 92440 National dally newspaper consumption 82226 MINUTES/DAY (2009) TOP 3 MONGOLIA AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 68 Things have been quiet down under for the last five years. This is sad because we would re- ally like to make a joke about the "Aussie press bounding like a kanga- roo." With this data we can only deduce that the newspaper business is steadier than a koala in a eucalyptus tree. Which is not that funny, we have to admit. 07015 65.890 64470 MA LA LA 62.021 50895 64 TURY SEYCHELLES Flve years ago they had one newspaper, now they have two. Say- ing that the Seychelles doubled the number of newspapers must be a great way to impress the nelghboring islands, such as Zanzibar, Mauritius and Reunion. BOTTOM 3 (19 CZECH REPUBLIC 13.759 14.543 14.800 14.133 13.441 10.003 10,572 1396 11.944 9202 SPAIN 3,4953 A64 3,439 3,351 3300 SOURCE: WAN-IFRA- WORLD PRESS TRENDS 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 RUSSIA Infostration The Daily Show STATUS REPORT RUSSIA The country in the world with the most time zones (eleven) is also the one with the most newspapers in Europe. Remarkably, though, Russia is the place where people spend less time reading: only 9 minutes a day. The two facts are unrelated We scoured the WAN-IFRA annual state-of-the-industry report (all 1263 pages of it!) for these little-known facts DAILY CIRCULATION 5.72% *Numbers shown in thousands AUSTRALIA A OCEANIA AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERCA EUROPE ASIA about our profession. INFOSTRATION BY CARLOS MONTEIRO 520,662 520.038 516.628 TEXTS BY LUÍS MIRANDA INEWSPAPER, LISBON, PORTUGAL, DESIGNED BY CARRIE HOOVER 333.374 336.645 340128 COUNTRIES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES 504,308 315.870 CHINA 25 488,654 INDIA 22 300.7 JAPAN 17 UNITED KINGOOM 6 KOREA REPUBLIC OF 6 THAILAND 4 USA 4 EGYPT 2 INDONESIA 20 PHILIPPINES 2 RUSSIA 2 . SZECHUAN PAPER Print media is big in Asia and growing stronger. Newspapers are as ubiq- uitous as the Szechuan pepper. In the last five years, newspapers grew 5.72% - those readers must be hungry. ALGERIA AUSTRIA 11 ARMENIA FRANCE 1 This former republic of the Soviet Union committed to get their population's hands dirty with newspaper ink. The newspapers there grew 140%, the biggest percentage growth in the last five years, but don't get too excited. Where there were once five newspapers, now there are 12. GERMANY 11 11 NETHERLANDS POLAND 11 11 TAWAN TURKEY LANGUAGES OF TOP 100 PAID-FOR-DAILIES but CHINESE 26 JAPANESE 17 ENGLISH 15 HINDI 8 KOREAN 6 THAI 4 ARABIC 3 TAMIL 3 B FILIPINO 2 . INDONESIAN 2 MONGOLIA If by chance you hap- pen to be having prob- lems calling your friend in Mongolia, there's a chance he's reading the newspaper and not willing to be interrupted. And he'll take a while: 72 GERMAN 2I MALAYALAM 2 RUSSIAN 2I BENGALU 11 DUTOH 1 FRENCH 1 I ICELAND GUAURATI 1 MARATHI 1 POLISH 1 TELUGU 1| The nation that called a volcano Eyjafjallajokull must have either: a) huge readership statis- tics, or b) a very wicked minutes is the average time spent reading the news there. TURKISH 1I 95322 93.640 sense of humor. The correct answer is A. Ice- landic newspapers have 96% reach among the adult audience. More on that volcano on page 9. 94750 92440 National dally newspaper consumption 82226 MINUTES/DAY (2009) TOP 3 MONGOLIA AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 68 Things have been quiet down under for the last five years. This is sad because we would re- ally like to make a joke about the "Aussie press bounding like a kanga- roo." With this data we can only deduce that the newspaper business is steadier than a koala in a eucalyptus tree. Which is not that funny, we have to admit. 07015 65.890 64470 MA LA LA 62.021 50895 64 TURY SEYCHELLES Flve years ago they had one newspaper, now they have two. Say- ing that the Seychelles doubled the number of newspapers must be a great way to impress the nelghboring islands, such as Zanzibar, Mauritius and Reunion. BOTTOM 3 (19 CZECH REPUBLIC 13.759 14.543 14.800 14.133 13.441 10.003 10,572 1396 11.944 9202 SPAIN 3,4953 A64 3,439 3,351 3300 SOURCE: WAN-IFRA- WORLD PRESS TRENDS 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 RUSSIA