NEWSPAPERS IN GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15061, 7 October 1922, Page 7

NEWSPAPERS IN GERMANY

DYING like flies. September lsl witnessed the death of a large number of German newspapers, while many more announced that they are not fated to live much longer. This disappearance en masse of journals of no little provincial importance is probably unparalleled, and is due to the enormous rise which has taken place in the cost of newspaper production. Paper, for instance, is now four hundred limes dearer than before the war, and the cost of oilier materials has risen to a somewhat similar extent.

Wages have, of course, been enormously increased and home news services have daily become more expensive. Owing lo llic fall of the marl; a foreign news service has become a luxury which only a few of the wealthy newspapers can afford. Only the other day most of the German newspapers doubled I heir price in a desperate effort, to enable them to carry on a little longer, hut it is doubtful if such a move will have the desired cffcel. One Berlin newspaper lost nearly one-third of its subscribers as a result.

Even important Berlin newspapers ore beginning lo feel Ihe effects of rising prices -to a very serious degree. Hecenlly it was announced that the Taglische Rumlsehnu has been compelled lo give nolice lo all of ils employees. in the provinces there, is scarcely a district in which some newspaper does not shut down those evenings. In Dresden all newspapers agree to appear only once daily, their evening editions being auspcnlod,