The German press’ tipping year

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In Germany, print advertising loss is reaching into the double digits, several points higher than the United States. Two of the nation’s leading dailies, in Hamburg and Berlin, have just been sold by the largest publicly owned publisher in Europe, Axel Springer. Leading newspapers are talking about going ad-free and relying almost entirely on reader revenue.

Source: Nieman Journalism Lab