As a result, the FT is enjoying record levels of readership.
That is not to malign a great paper of record or its readership, but last week as I walked back past the mile-long queue for a glimpse of Tim, it was the only newspaper anyone was reading.
By Thursday afternoon, Ms. Slaughter's confession-slash-manifesto was breaking readership records for The Atlantic's Web site, according to a magazine representative.
The German edition started in October 2013, and has consistently reached and surpassed new readership records.
Anne-Marie Slaughter's article "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" published last week in The Atlantic has struck a collective nerve, breaking readership records on the magazine's website and generating all manner of buzz.
Sporting publications' resilience explains why Innovation, a consultancy, is working on the launch of one new sports newspaper in Europe and the relaunch of another with a heavy emphasis on sport.La Gazzetta dello Sport, a fixture of Italy's bars and football stands, recently recorded an average daily print readership of 4.3m a record for any newspaper in the country.
"Newspaper readership and book sales can be tracked and recorded," Schroeder writes on the film's website.
It all makes for compelling fodder for superfans and the gearheads and record geeks and gossips, the collective readership of any music bio.
As with all popular papers, by recording the interests of its large readership, it reflected and amplified developments in society.
Advertisements, occasionally with obscene artwork, derive from independent record labels promoting individual bands for a readership of "insatiable rock fans from all walks of life, a couple hundred of which are music professionals," Mr. Testa estimates.
