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Germany’s largest newsroom: the central editorial desk at Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) in Berlin
regionally, 20 weeklies, and 1,590 mass-mar-
Handelsblatt, and all stand out for investig-
ket magazines (2014). After China, India, Ja-
ative research, analysis, background, and
pan and the USA, Germany is the fifth-largest
comprehensive commentary. News magazine
newspaper market worldwide. Per publica-
Spiegel/Spiegel Online and the yellow-press
tion day, 17.54 million dailies and five million
publication Bild are considered the most-
weekly or Sunday papers are sold (2014).
quoted media.
The leading nationwide newspapers are
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allge-
At the same time, the sector is undergoing a
meine Zeitung, Die Welt, Die Zeit, taz and
profound structural change. For the last 15
Everyday digital life
Mobile Internet access and the use
of mobile handhelds are surging in
Germany. With the increase in mobile
accessing of data, technological requirements likewise grow as regards
network infrastructure. Studies also
show that the number of Internet
users has for some time now only
been edging up.
Rapid development: more than 55 million people online in Germany
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55.6
38.6
18.3
4.1
1997
2000
2006
2010
2014
Source: ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie 2014
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