The World Reads...
Newspapers
In each country, I use these photos to help journalists and newspaper managers understand their audience. Every journalist likes to believe that it is the "elite", the "intelligentsia", the "powerful, well-educated" who read their work. Certainly, they must. But in the countries of the former Soviet regime and others struggling for democracy, there are other readers who are far more important to the future. The ordinary, average citizens.
A newspaper habit, a hunger for new, is a hopeful sign for both democracy and the newspaper business.
Judith Roales
Kazakhstan 2003
