Get the Facts About Newspapers

The new advertisement carries the slogan, "We've done the search. You only have to turn the pages" and reads:

Newspapers represent an industry that connects with 1.6 billion people of all ages, all creeds and all races each and every day.

We produce strongly branded products of different shapes and sizes, of varying quality, of different political hues, and deliver those products in various guises. Global sales of paid-for newspapers are growing (up nearly 10 percent over the last five years), our $190 billion industry is expected to grow its advertising by 17 percent over the next five-years, or at a faster rate than the preceding five years.

Print is the world's largest advertising medium (with a 42 percent share), and advertising revenues in newspapers alone exceed the combined total of radio, outdoor, cinema, magazines and, yes, the internet.

The two previous advertisements are also available for use by newspapers wishing to join this global advertising initiative.

One takes advantage of one of newspaper advertising's inherent strengths -- the power of persuasion -- and offers a compelling argument about why print is here to stay. The ad is entitled, "The Good News -- guess who gets 1.6 billion hits a day?"

The other advertisement, which pokes a little fun at the doomsayers, quotes some of the funniest and silliest things ever said by public figures -- leading to the infamous "newspapers are now an endangered species" quoted by The Economist last year.

Hundreds of newspapers have already joined the campaign. WAN is inviting newspaper companies world-wide to join the initiative to promote the power of the newspaper and to rectify some of the absurd and damaging claims being made about its imminent demise. Full details are available at http://www.wan-press.org/rubrique879.html

The Paris-based WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, defends and promotes press freedom and the professional and business interests of newspapers world-wide. Representing 18,000 newspapers, its membership includes 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and

11 regional and world-wide press groups.

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, WAN, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: lkilman@wan.asso.fr

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