Posted on 05/02/2005 3:33:52 PM PDT by Jean S
May 2, 2005
1. USA Today, 2,281,831, up 0.05 percent
2. The Wall Street Journal, 2,070,498, down 0.8 percent
3. The New York Times, 1,136,433, up 0.24 percent
4. Los Angeles Times, 907,997, down 6.5 percent (a)
5. The Washington Post, 751,871, down 2.7 percent
6. New York Daily News, 735,536, down 1.5 percent
7. New York Post, 678,086, up 0.01 percent
8. Chicago Tribune, 573,744, down 6.6 percent
9. Houston Chronicle, 527,744, down 3.9 percent (a)
10. San Francisco Chronicle, 468,739, down 6.1 percent (a)
11. The Arizona Republic, 452,016, down 3.2 percent (a)
12. The Boston Globe, 434,330, down 3.9 percent
13. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 394,767, down 1.6 percent
14. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 391,373, down 2.4 percent
15. Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 378,316, up 0.33 percent (a)
16. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 364,974, down 3.0 percent (a)
17. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 348,416, down 5.2 percent (a)
18. Detroit Free Press, 347,447, down 2.0 percent
19. St. Petersburg Times (Florida), 337,515, down 3.2 percent (a)
20. The Oregonian, Portland, 335,980, down 1.8 percent
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Four newspapers were not allowed to include their circulation figures in the report released Monday as a penalty for misstating circulation figures in the past: Newsday of New York's Long Island; the Dallas Morning News; the Chicago Sun-Times and Hoy, a Spanish-language newspaper in New York. The first three papers were among the top 20 in the comparable reporting period a year ago.
(a) Includes Saturday circulation.
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Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Down boy!
I have seen no explanation of why the Journal is down, rather than up. The Times is up, rather than down, because it is pursuing circulation outside the NY metropolitan area. For instance, the Times is available here, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They CANNOT be making money on that effort. They have to be doing that to be able to tell their advertisers that their circulation has at least held constant.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, " 'L.A. Chappaquiddick,' Starring Hillary Clinton."
LA Times....nice..
It's no secret why USA subscription is high. Check into virtually any hotel and USA is available "free". At most finer hotels, you can have the price of 50 cents deducted from your bill if you don't want the paper. You have to take the initiative. This leads me to believe USA has a corporate account and bills many tens of thousands of papers without most hotel guests even aware.
**19. St. Petersburg Times (Florida), 337,515, down 3.2 percent (a) **
I'm surprised the Miami Herald isn't bigger...or even the Sun Sentinel.
The Herald's is at 307,000.
These figures are like their polls, they are stacked. A lot of newspapers are sold at certain times for discounted rates so they can show their circulation up and they can charge more for advertisement. I will bet the circulation on every main newspaper in this country is off from the year 2000. People have gotten wise and get most of their news from else ware.I haven't subscribed to a newspaper since 2000 and they use to call me with all kind of deals trying to get me back.
Save trees - don't read newspapers.
However, both of their changes was so small it was insignificant.
Jayson Blair must be the new circulation manager for the Times. Even at that, it is comforting to note that the Wall Street Journal's circulation is nearly double that of the Times, and both are sold more or less nationally. And the continued plummeting of the LA Times is a thing of beauty -- they lost so many subscribers in the late 90s, I thought they had bottomed out, but maybe the bottom is still a long way down. Good news all around.
Yes, I live in Maine and I have gotten calls pressuring me to take a NYT subscription. They are scrambling to keep ahead of the lost readership, I think.
Thanks for the info but I get my news either here or from "The Onion." ;)
the nyt owns the boston globe, so things are worse than it first appears.
usa today, corporations are starting to realize that usa today hasn't many "quality readers" = readers who buy the paper intending to read it.
many of usa today's papers go to hotels and motels and the recipients do not read the papers.
so, expect usa today's advertising to go down.
Can't figure USA Today other than the fact that it is included in many hotel rate charges. USA Today seems to be equaled only by the NY Times in terms of bias. In one paper before the last Presidential election they had four articles relating to the candidates. The two on President Bush were critical nearly to the point of being riduculous and the two on JF Kerry made him out to be some kind of an angel landed on earth. That was the last USA Today I ever bothered to buy. For anyone with more than half a brain, it is a waste of money.
With the NYTimes only circulating 1.1mil in a metro area of at least 10 million, that's pretty sad.
Why do we even pay any attention to this archaic media?
Newspapers are todays equivalent of the 8-track.
I would think circulation figures would be down just anyway.
What was happening in spring 2004? The War in Iraq was meeting heavy casualties. The Democrats were settling on a nominee. The media was doing their best to try to lunch Rumsfeld, Bush or both.
And what's been happening this spring?
Well, nothing other than the Pope dying and a new one getting elected. The Schiavo case was probably deep but not an issue many watched closely. The Iraqi elections might have been a major story if they hadn't gone so well.
So, just from general interest, newspaper readership should be down even aside from the leftist bias, the ancient technology and waste of foresty resources, the dumbing down of our children so fewer even bother to read and the laziness of our press to feed us polls and puffery rather than hard news.
The L.A. Times won't recover their circulation until they switch to a Spanish edition. The writing is on the billboard.
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