Press Release: 8 editors-in-chief of newspapers and magazines at European Commission to discuss the future of the print media

How will the print media evolve in times of increasing Internet use, enhanced cross-media competition, the emergence of “publications for free” and an apparent reduction of interest of the younger generation in newspapers and magazines? These topics are on the agenda of a high-level-meeting in Brussels on 23 October 2006 between Media Commissioner Viviane Reding and the editors-in-chief of: Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), La Stampa (Italy), Luxemburger Wort (Luxembourg), Polityka (Poland), Diario de Noticias and Expresso (Portugal) and The Times (United Kingdom). Following a first meeting in autumn 2005 (see IP/05/1164), this is now the second time such a high-level dialogue between the written press and the European Commission is taking place.