years, newspapers have been regularly losing
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on average 1.5-2 percent of their paid printed
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editions. They are increasingly rarely reaching younger readers and with circulation figures and advertising revenues dwindling are
in difficult waters. Over 100 newspapers have
responded to the free-for-view Internet by introducing pay-on-demand systems.
Digitisation of the media world, the Internet,
the rampant growth in mobile handhelds,
and the triumphs of the social media have
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significantly changed how the media are
used. Today, 55.6 million Germans over the
age of 14 (79 percent) are online. In 2014, every
Internet user was online on 5.9 days of the
week and spent about 166 minutes a day on
a mobile handheld. Moreover, over half of all
Whether the interactive Internet nodes where
Internet users are members of a private com-
people gather also form the foundations for
munity. The digital revolution has generated
a viable future digital journalism remains to
a new concept of the public sphere; the social
be seen. In Germany, for example, the pro-
media and the Bloggosphere mirror an open
gress of the online magazine Krautreporter,
society of dialogue in which everyone can
launched by crowdfunding in 2014, is being
participate in the opinion-for ming discourse.
followed with bated breath.
Multiple access: how Germans use the Internet
Daily media usage
Source: ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie 2014
95 %
Computer, PC,
laptop
62
%
Smartphone/
mobile phone
TV
240 min.
TV
Radio
192 min.
28
Internet
111 min.
18 %
%
Tablet
Newspapers
23 min.
Source: ARD-ZDF-Online-Studie 2014
the Internet; every second person surfed from