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I want to show you something crazy. Earlier in 2020, Reuters Institute released their Reuters Digital News Report 2020 that, among many other things, looked at how many people in each country were paying for online news.
The result looks like this:
As you can see, most of Scandinavia scores relatively highly compared to the industry average (at about 10%), but Norway is just off the scale at (42%).
This is strange because the Nordic countries are usually very similar, and most other studies there rarely differ more than a few percentage points. So why is there such a big difference when it comes to news? ... and why is Norway doing four times the industry average?
Well, this is the topic of this 31-page Plus report. We are going to take a deep dive into the Norwegian market to find out how this is possible.
To explain what is happening in Norway, we have to look at many different things. We need to look at the infrastructure in which Norwegian newspapers operate, we have to look at the market as a whole, at the tech solutions Norwegian publishers have implemented, the culture we see around news, and also very important, the editorial focus.
Each one of these plays a role in defining this, and it's the combination that makes all this work. And we will start our analysis by looking outside the media industry. What is Norway like as a country compared to other countries?
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