Virus hastens newspapers’ slide into shaky digital future

Virus hastens newspapers’ slide into shaky digital future

Virus hastens newspapers' slide into shaky digital future

Virus hastens newspapers' slide into shaky digital future

The disappearance of newspapers deals out additional pain throughout the production chain, taking in printers, paper makers and delivery people. (AFP)

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Virus hastens newspapers' slide into shaky digital future

Getting papers to readers is a challenge, worsening a decline in advertising

Updated 08 August 2020

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PARIS: The coronavirus crisis has weighed heavily on print newspapers already battling for survival around the world, with the number of copies sold tumbling while less profitable digital readerships surge.

Simply delivering printed papers to the shops “” or having customers come in to buy them “” has become a challenge, worsening the decline in sales and advertising revenue.

"Consumption of printed newspapers has fallen as lockdowns undermine physical distribution, almost certainly accelerating the shift