"Despite the global financial crisis, newspaper circulation grew 1.3 per cent worldwide in 2008," WAN president Gavin O'Reilly said here, while contradicting the 'misleading reports predicting the imminent death of newspapers'. Elaborating on the current state of the newspaper industry, the WAN President said that 1.9 billion people read a paid daily newspaper every day and newspapers reach 41 per cent more adults than the world wide web.
Jacob Mathew, executive editor of the Malayala Manorama Group of Publications, has been unanimously elected to be the president of WAN-IFRA at its annual general meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
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