Two oclock in the morning and papers and just coming off the press. Three hours later at five am angle of a but is already on her paper rich in the laos its region in Eastern Germany but the number of papers she has to deliver is dwindling. Then. We lose subscribers either when somebody dies because no new subscribers take their place or when the price goes up and. There may soon come a dawn when there are no more newspapers in mailboxes. Robert dallek has just opened his News Agency Store but he already knows that most of his newspaper buying customers that day will be senior citizens. Because our customer
base you see that mostly older people buy these papers which sort of lost our young the Customer Base and thats also due to the internet richard was a sheep but. Since the advent of the internet the circulation of daily newspapers in germany has fallen off by nearly fifty percent. Even though germany is a press can trade with over Three Hundred daily newspapers most of which are loc
also banking on more local reporting. and indeed we did a digitalization is a huge chance and we have taken that chance in the last two years we have started up twelve local online newspapers one for each district in berlin we have turned them into an advertising market and suddenly and that s the interesting thing we re attracting new readers. once a week and news letter is sent out for each of the twelve districts madelyne hardback writes about free. time crowd spared the district where she lives today she s visiting a youth club. it s not so important for people living in other parts of berlin but for people living around here it s totally important because it s happening on their doorstep. the young journalist interviews a social worker puts things on record as journalists have always done for her reporters have a duty to get the story right i see why most of the what they read in the