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Nature 137, 25 (4 January 1936) | doi:10.1038/137025c0;

Newspaper Production as an Industry

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A BROADSHEET recently issued by P.E.P. (Political and Economic Planning) gives a summary of elementary facts about the Press of Great Britain collected as a preliminary to a constructive investigation of the possibilities of improvements in the Press to meet modern needs. Including for this purpose the entire preparation and publication of newspapers and periodicals, although attention is concentrated mainly on the London daily newspapers, the survey emphasises the extent to which the Press has become an important industry, ranking in size with electricity supply and the manufacture of bricks and tiles and considerably above the brewing or the silk and rayon industry.