No news: The newspaper disappears

#81

Just this photo today.

A photo from the past. From a time when there were newsstands all over. And you could stop there, after arriving at a city, and buy a newspaper or two – how I loved that.

It is hardly possible today. The days of newspaper kiosks are coming to an end. The printed circulation of all daily newspapers in Europe is currently around 13 million copies. Five years ago, when I took this photo in Bolzano, South Tyrol, on 04 July 2019, there were five million more. There, in Italy, 2,700 kiosks have been closed in the last four years – a decrease of 16 per cent.

Digitalization is here to stay. The printed message will largely disappear. This has a lot of positive aspects – and some negative ones.

See you in Europe,

Johannes