Print and Online Newspapers in Europe - A Comparative Analysis in 16 Countries

Publication date: 2005
Action: A20
  • Pages: 326
  • Author(s): R. van der Wurff, E. Lauf
  • Publisher(s): Het Spinhuis
  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-5589-238-9

The number and use of online newspapers has increased tremendously since the first ones appeared around 1995. Since that time, scholarly and practical thinking about the significance of this new phenomenon has gone through the inevitable stages of euphoria and doom. It is only in the last few years that we have entered a more temperate period, in which publishers gradually work towards finding the appropriate place for online newspapers in news markets in Europe.