The report is a summary on the developmental situation of domestic and foreign digital newspapers in 2009.It’s mainly divided into two parts：the first part describes the development status in the field of digital newspaper in 3 representative western countries：the United States，Britain and Japan，particularly，those new status and new changes arisen in 2009，such as the efforts on the aspects of revision，fees，content，and the output mode;While the second part introduces the development status of Chinese digital newspaper，especially the status on the aspects of quantity，technology and fees as well as the problem in legal dimensions.