Dienstag, November 06, 2007

US Newspaper Circulation Declines Sharply

via MediaDailyNews on ABC figures March - September 2007

Large newspapers (Sunday circulation)

New York Times minus 8% to 1,500,394
Los Angeles Times minus 5% to 1,112,165
Chicago Tribune minus 2% to 917,868
Washington Post minus 4% to 894,428

Among mid-sized city papers, sometimes even worse (again Sunday circulation)

Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News minus 14% to 600,229
The Boston Globe minus 6.5% to 548,906
Dallas Morning News minus 8% to 523,313
Phoenix Republic minus 5% to 480,585
Atlanta Journal Constitution minus 9% to 475,988
Baltimore Sun minus 4% to 364,827
Miami Herald minus 13% to 307,431

- with "slightly smaller declines in weekday circulation"

P.S.
Wall Street Journal (weekday) minus 1% to 1,929,574