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US newspaper gloom overshadows industry survey

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

Published: May 7 2008 09:53 | Last updated: May 7 2008 09:53

The gloom hanging over the US newspaper industry is distorting an otherwise optimistic mood among the world’s newspaper editors, according to a global survey of newsroom opinion.

Only 30 per cent of North American newspaper editors polled by Zogby International believed that the quality of journalism would improve over the next decade, compared to 45.5 per cent in Western Europe and over 60 per cent in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

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