Every fifth German reads news online

A research study conducted by the German association for telecommunications and new media called Bitkom, has revealed that 21 percent of the Germans are reading news online. The study further showed that until the end of 2007 the 20 most visited news web portals will record about 4 billion hits. This is an increase of 25 percent compared to the previous year (see left side of graphic). Amongst these 20 news portals are also regional newspaper websites that were so strong in their region that they made it into Germany's top ten - good news for newspaper publishers.