Newspaper Circulations Continue To Fall
Posted on 30. Apr, 2007 by toddand in Media
What’s black and white, and ‘red’ less and less?
Below are the latest paid weekday circulations of the United States’ 20 largest newspapers, as reported today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percentage changes reflect the difference over a one-year period.
Note: 14 of the 20 realized a decline in circulation with the Dallas Morning News* dropping 14.3 percent. Also, of the six newspapers that gained circulation, only two (both New Yorkers) added more than one percent – the other four only increased by a fraction.
1. USA Today, 2,278,022, up 0.2 percent
2. The Wall Street Journal, 2,062,312, up 0.6 percent
3. The New York Times, 1,120,420, down 1.9 percent
4. Los Angeles Times, 815,723, down 4.2 percent
5. New York Post, 724,748, up 7.6 percent
6. New York Daily News, 718,174, up 1.4 percent
7. The Washington Post, 699,130, down 3.5 percent
8. Chicago Tribune, 566,827, down 2.1 percent
9. Houston Chronicle, 503,114, down 2 percent
10. The Arizona Republic, 433,731, down 1.1 percent
11. Dallas Morning News, 411,919, down 14.3 percent
12. Newsday, Long Island, 398,231, down 6.9 percent
13. San Francisco Chronicle, 386,564, down 2.9 percent
14. The Boston Globe, 382,503, down 3.7 percent
15. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 372,629, down 6.1 percent
16. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 357,399, down 2.1 percent
17. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 352,593, up 0.6 percent
18. Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 345,252, down 4.9 percent
19. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 344,704, up 0.5 percent
20. Detroit Free Press, 329,989, down 4.7 percent
*According to the AP story, “the Dallas Morning News is reporting for the first time since being censured in 2004 for misstating circulation figures. The Chicago Sun-Times has not yet resumed reporting.”
The AP also reported that comparable figures for Sunday newspapers fell 3.1 percent, according to the Newspaper Association of America.
