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June 17, 2010

OECD report: US and UK lead the world in newspaper publishing industry decline

By Dominic wireposts

The Organisaton for Economic Cooperation and Development has produced an in-depth study into newspaper circulation declines worldwide.

You can read all 98 pages of it here. But here’s a snapshot of “newspaper publishing market decline” by country between 2007 and 2009. The US and the UK fared worst, down 30 per cent and 21 per cent respectively.

But Austria and Australia declined by just two per cent and three per cent each.

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