"The news publishing industry remains the leading investor in journalism worldwide. And the global appetite for quality news is undiminished. Paying news audiences – print and digital – rose 0.5% to 640 million per day in 2018. Overall revenues from print and digital sales and advertising decrea ... sed 3% year on year, but are forecast to rise slightly in 2019. 54% of newspapers’ overall revenue comes from circulation sales, up 1% year on year and forecast down 2% for 2019 as prices come under pressure. Print revenues still account for 85% of newspapers’ overall revenue globally – but its share declined from 89% in 2018 and is forecast to be 87% in 2019. Digital circulation revenues increased +11% year on year (yoy) – forecast to increase further in 2019. Digital advertising revenues increased by +5% yoy – forecast to increase further in 2019. Digital news subscribers increased 15% yoy – forecast to increase further in 2019. Print circulation revenues decreased 3% yoy – and are forecast to drop further in 2019. Print advertising revenues decreased 7% yoy – and further decline is expected in 2019. Print paid audiences decreased slightly (less than 1%) yoy – and forecast to slip again in 2019." (Snapshot: World press trends 2019, page 6) more

"This document reports on the construction and operationalisation of a proposed annual Media Sustainability Barometer (MSB). The MSB is a quantitative index offered as a tool to both measure and monitor the media ecosystem, in terms of its sustainability across key contributing forces - and much mor ... e. This tool has the power to model how changes in the ecosystem impact on media sustainability in specific countries or blocs, and also to estimate how the media environment impacts on other spheres of society, including those identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As such, it addresses the gap in existing initiatives, by bringing together mixed-source media viability indices proposed by UNESCO, Deutsche Welle Akademie and others, into one objectively derived quantitative index. In doing so, it offers the opportunity to analyse and understand the complex dynamics amongst spheres of society that shape, and are shaped by, a sustainable, pluralistic and diverse media sector." (Executive summary) more