Free papers are fizzling, too

The global market for free newspapers is in a slump, too, according one authoritative industry analyst.After expanding explosively for a dozen years, the total circulation of free dailies around the world grew at an “all-time low” of 5% in the first eight months of this year, says Piet Bakker, a professor at Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands.Piet, who blogs at Newspaper Innovation, says the