US Newspaper circulation down 4.7%
From the archive: published Oct 27, 2008, 18 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Circulation figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) shows an increasing decline in newspaper circulation in the United States.
According to the figures for the 6 months to September, national daily circulation dropped 4.6% to 38,165,848 copies, and Sunday papers dropped 4.8% to 43,631,646 copies.
According to E&P, for the September 2007 reporting period, daily circulation fell 2.6% and Sunday 4.6%.
The decline was not even, with some newspapers seeing declines in double digits, including The Boston Globe: 10.1%, The Philadelphia Inquirer 11.0% (Sunday 13.7%) The Daily News (Philadelphia): 13.2%, The Miami Herald: 11.8%, The Detroit News: 10%, The Houston Chronicle 11.6% (Sunday 15.7%), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 13.6%, The Star Ledger (Newark, N.J.): 10.4% (Sunday 14.6%)
The only main newspapers to report increases in circulation were the The St. Paul Pioneer Press +0.2% and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday +0.8%. The USA Today was up less that 0.1%.
Of the majors, The New York Times dropped 3.5%, the Wall Street Journal was flat, The Washington Post dropped 1.9% and The Los Angeles Times dropped 5% daily.
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