Circulation of the nation's 20 biggest newspapers (NY Times slipping)

PoliticsNY.com ^ | 5/5/03

[LdSentinal]

Average weekday circulation of the nation's 20 biggest newspapers for the six months ended March 31, as reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percentage changes are from the same period a year ago.

1. USA Today, 2,250,474, up 1.8 percent
2. The Wall Street Journal, 1,820,600, unchanged
3. The New York Times, 1,130,740, down 5.3 percent
4. Los Angeles Times, 979,549, down 0.6 percent (a)
5. The Washington Post, 796,367, down 1.9 percent
6. New York Daily News, 737,030, up 0.7 percent
7. Chicago Tribune, 621,055, down 1.1 percent
8. New York Post, 620,080, up 10.2 percent
9. Newsday of New York's Long Island, 579,351, up 0.3 percent
10. Houston Chronicle, 548,508, up 0.5 percent (a)
11. The Dallas Morning News, 532,050, up 1.1 percent
12. San Francisco Chronicle, 514,265 (b)
13. Chicago Sun-Times, 491,795, up 0.9 percent
14. The Arizona Republic, 486,131, down 2.1 (a)
15. The Boston Globe, 448,817, down 6.3 percent
16. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 419,568 (b)
17. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 407,730, up 0.3 percent
18. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 386,890, up 1.5 percent
19. Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 375,505 (a,b)
20. The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, 373,137, up 1.3 percent (a)

(a) includes Saturday circulation

(b) paper had a change in the number of editions or a change in reporting periods. No comparable figures were provided

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the good news!

[Grampa Dave]

Good news about the NY Slimes!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Good news too about the Chicago Tribune which was bought out by the LA Slimes operation as well.

[Grampa Dave]

Really good news about the NY Slimes as it slimes its way down re total subscriptions.

[Mr. Mojo]

And check out that NY Post. ...Nice.

[Grampa Dave]

The Boston Globe which is the farm slime team for the Ny Slimes took one of the biggest hits. The Globe's articles posted on Free Republic are poorly written and are basic hate GW stories posing as News.

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't it amazing when there is a decent alternative as a newspaper or tv channel for the news, it does well in the free market.

[Grampa Dave]

John if you are up and around, this is good news.

Looks like more people are realizing that buying a NY Slimes is a waste of money.

[Mr. Mojo]

Now if only some decent alternatives can pop up in places like Seattle or L.A.

[Grampa Dave]

With this good news, Grampa will be heading to bed.

The way the NY Slimes lies about everything else, this is probably an inflated ciculation number.

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

Oops, you're already here, Grampa Dave. Sorry to ping you again!

Great news about the NY Slimes, huh? :-)

[DPB101]

The left's reaction to failure is to do more of exactly what caused the failure in the first place.

Expect to see Howell Raines put Maureen Dowd in charge of the editorial page and add Michael Moore and Molly Ivins to the Op-ed section.

[Lancey Howard]

Mostly good news, although I am sick of waiting for the Philadelphia Inquirer to hurry up and die. Hopefully, some of these "up" figures are mainly a phenomenom of the Iraq War.

[William Tell]

Grampa Dave said: "Looks like more people are realizing that buying a NY Slimes is a waste of money."

If you set fire to your money, that would be wasting it.

Subscribing to the "NY Slimes" provides resources to people who hate you and your most deeply held values and beliefs. Such people wish to rob you of your freedoms and substitute the pursuit of the collective good which they will define.

That is far worse than "wasting" your money.

[xm177e2]

It looks like the NY Post picked up pretty much everyone who fled the NY Times.

[WaterDragon]

Very interesting! And I agree....Good News!

[GaConfed]

A bit of inside skinny........The Atlanta Journal Constitution every so often gives extra papers to its carriers to throw non subscribers along their routes. This could be done in order to inflate circulation numbers. Me thinks this is exactly the case.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Isn't it amazing when there is a decent alternative as a newspaper or tv channel for the news, it does well in the free market.

"The leftist liars, exposed here 24/7," would have us believe that today's markets aren't really free. We've heard 'em whine that today's media is DOMINATED by conservative reporting>

BWWWWWAAAAAAAAAhahahahaha. Thanks for the good news PING.