Swiss media: newspapers holding onto readers, more or less

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss newspapers are no longer losing ground to the Internet, but these are not necessarily happy days for them, with the main for-pay newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland seeing slippage in their audiences, for example. Pn the whole, readership has remained stable throughout the country, in the past year, with your average consumer [...]

Swiss business news highlights 20 July: pharma, oil spill, media

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – GenevaLunch is on a slow-news holiday schedule for the next two weeks, but to make sure you don’t miss key reports we’re bringing you highlights from some of the news beats, with links to original sources: EPFL plays key role in understanding Deepwater Horizon oil spill EPFL is playing a key role [...]

Swiss print newspapers’ circulations inch up

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Zurich/Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss newspapers’ print versions are seeing their circulations rise, albeit a slight 0.6 percent. The most recent figures from the Remp survey, done by the Swiss advertising media’s independent research organization, shows that 92.4% of Swiss people over age 14 read a newspaper “more or less regularly,” without defining the frequency. [...]