Al-Ahram Weekly Online, noting the shift from print to online publishing, says English-language publications face an extra problem--the word "newspaper."
But English-speaking newspaper companies, in particular, may find this transition difficult to swallow, especially since, according to Columbia University media expert Eli Noam, English is one of the rare languages where the word "newspaper" actually has the word "paper" in it. In other languages, the linguistic concept itself is not so directly tied to a mass-market wood-based product.
I would have loved a further explanation of "Dagblat" or "Shimbun" and their precise translation, or what the news-publication business using paper is called in other languages.
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