World's best newspapers

The Financial Times is the world's best newspaper, according to a survey of executives, politicians, university lecturers, journalists and advertising professionals conducted by a Swiss-based consultant, Internationale Medienhilfe (IMH). The FT repeats on the top of the list, while WSJ. Frankfurter Allgemeine and Le Monde go up in its figures. On the other side, NYT and the Intl Herald Tribune lose up to 13 and 6 points each. Spaniard El País falls from 7th to 9th position, but still remains in the top ten (brackets show the 2003 results).

1 Financial Times (UK) 19.4 (20.7)
2 Wall Street Journal (US) 17.0 (7.5)
3 Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany) 16.2 (10.9)
4 Le Monde (France) 12.5 (2.1)
5 Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Switzerland) 12.1 (15.0)
6 New York Times (US) 8.1 (21.3)
7 Intl Herald Tribune (France) 5.2 (11.3)
8 Asahi Shimbun (Japan) 2.6 (0.4)
9 El Pais (Spain) 1.9 (4.8)
10 Corriere della Sera (Italy) 1.3 (0.7)
Other papers 3.7 (3.8)