<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (June 2013) </Td> </Tr> <P> In the United Kingdom, newspaper publishers have been similarly hit . In late 2008 The Independent announced job cuts, and in 2016 The Independent's print edition ceased circulation . In January the chain Associated Newspapers, now DMG Media, sold a controlling stake in the London Evening Standard as it announced a 24% decline in 2008 ad revenues . In March 2009 parent company Daily Mail and General Trust said job cuts would be deeper than expected, spanning its newspapers, which include the Leicester Mercury, the Bristol Evening Post and the Derby Telegraph . One industry report predicted that 1 in 10 UK print publications would cut its frequency of publication in half, go online only or shut in 2009 . </P> <P> The challenges facing the industry are not limited to the United States, or even English - speaking markets . Newspapers in Switzerland and the Netherlands, for instance, have lost half of their classified advertising to the Internet . At its annual convention slated for May 2009, in Barcelona, Spain, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers has titled the convention's subject "Newspapers Focus on Print & Advertising Revenues in Difficult Times". </P> <P> In September 2008, the World Association of Newspapers called for regulators to block a proposed Google--Yahoo! advertising partnership, calling it a threat to newspaper industry revenues worldwide . The WAN painted a stark picture of the threat posed to newspapers by the search engine giants . "Perhaps never in the history of newspaper publishing has a single, commercial entity threatened to exert this much control over the destiny of the press," said the Paris - based global newspaper organization of the proposed pact . </P>

Is newspaper readership in general up or down relative to the recent past here in america