APPETITE FOR NEWS

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 3

APPETITE FOR NEWS

BERLIN’S NEWSPAPERS. Tlie Berlin citizen reads a great deal and avails himself of every opportunity to indulge in his favourite mental recreation. He reads in the morning on the way to work, and in the evening on the way home; he reads at breakfast, lunch, and supper. He reads at home, in the restaurant, and coffee houses; in the street going about his business, and in the middle of traffic. In fact, he always reads newspapers. He hungers for newsprint every minute of his life, says the “World’s Press News.”

To provide for his needs, 80 daliy papers are published in Berlin, of which 11 have two daily editions, and one issues three. The other 68 only once a day, and out of these 40 have only a purely local circulation. Two of the dailies are printed in English, one in Russian, and another in Polish. Thirty-eight newspapers are published in weekly, and sometimes in biweekly ’and even tri-weekly editions, and all these publications, weeklies and dailies, are read, more or less Naturally, the Berliner has no time to scan every paper he buys from the first to the last page. Besides, the newspapers are issued in too rapid succession. From 6 to 7 a.m. 50 dailies are printed, one on the heels of the other; at 8 o’clock there is already a mdiday edi- J tion available ; at noon and at 2 p.m.} evening editions come out; at 3 o’clock 1 the largest issue of an evening paper ( is ready. From 4 to 8 p.m. there is a. wild scamper of evening papers throughout the streets. And between 9 and 10 at night the provincial editions of next day’s dailies are on their way to the stations. The precise circulation figures of Berlin dailies are not known, but, on the whole, Berlin newspapers publish daily an average number of 3,500,000 copies, not including the illustrated papers, weeklies and magazines. The circulation of illustrated weeklies is estimated at 2,000,000, and that of educational periodicals and magazines at about 1,000,000.