Best newspaper

A Swiss survey of 1000 "executives, politicians, university lecturers, journalists and advertising professionals" rated the best newspapers. And the New York Times was not #1.

Position Publication, country Mentions (pct) [last () figure is 2003 result]
1 Financial Times (U.K.) 19.4 (20.7)
2 Wall Street Journal (U.S.) 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 (U.S.) 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)

Twice as many people rate the Wall Street Journal higher than the New York Times or the New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune. It was a precipitous drop for the New York Times from 2003.