France: Government shocked by newspaper crisis
Copy sales and revenues from advertising fell 2.6% and 0.6% respectively. Revenues from subscriptions remained stable but their volume fell 1.6%. Over the past 15 years, subscriptions had been rising, which shows that now they are not making up for the loss in copy sales.
The national general information press was the hardest hit in 2005 which the report named a "black year." Total revenues were under 1.46 billion euro, even lower than another especially bad year, 1993. Over the past 15 years, circulation has fallen 15%, revenues from sales have fallen 14% before inflation, and total revenues for the nations 12 national newspapers has fallen a whopping 31%.
In May, the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called for investments and tax reductions, but it's not sure if even this would help, as much money has already been invested and the newspaper industry already benefits from generous government subsidies.
Concerning advertising, the numbers are a bit better, until one looks at the details. Newspapers earned euro60 million more in 2005 than they did in 2004 from advertisements, a very modest 1.3% increase. But as it turns out, all of this 60 million came from growth in freesheets whose ad revenue went from 820million to 880million year-on-year.
On a lighter note for 2006, one estimate published by TNS Média Intelligence puts first-half growth in advertising for the written press at 9.1% and 12.4% for national dailies. But Le Monde doubts the validity of these numbers.
Source: Le Monde (in French)
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I am a student of journalism and have been doing a comparative study between the press in India and the press in France for a year now. I was quite taken aback to see the current state of affairs of the French press as far as viability goes. I'm curious to know why things have come to this. Are the reasons primarily economic or is the market changing too rapidly for the traditional press to react to or have the french stopped reading newspapers?
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