The Cheapest Newspaper.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 22, 29 May 1902, Page 7

The Cheapest Newspaper.

The farthing newspaper is at length an accomplished fact. One has been started in Vienna, and the first number was issued recently. It is called Die Ncue Zeitung, and is about two-thirda the size of an English half-penny daily. There are eight pages, three of which are devoted to advertisements and five to news. The newcomer is not a party organ, but will be generally progressive in tendency. The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the neww printed by other journals, together with articles and generally interesting matter. There will be a morning edition and an evening edition, the latter published at noon. The fact that paper manufacturers hold a large interest in the property solves the most difficult part of the problem of making a farthing journal pay, for the coßt of paper is, cf course, one of the mo6t important considerations. The proprietor, who was formerly the owner of a leading daily in Budapest, says that he requires a circulation of 80,000 to cover the bare cost of publication. This is an enormous circulation in Vienna, where the most popular paper at present does not exceed 50,000 per day, and where there are several dailies with a circulatiou of less tharf' 10,000.