[Milhous]

FAS-FAX: Top 25 Daily and Sunday U.S. Newspapers

NEW YORK Here is a chart for the Top 25 newspapers by circulation, both daily and Sunday, based on the new FAS-FAX numbers released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations this morning, for six-month period ending Sept. 30.

The full story can be read here. .

--Average Daily Circulation at the Top 25 U.S. Daily Newspapers-- Preliminary Figures as Filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations -- Subject to Audit

Total Paid Daily Circulation, Monday through Friday average

Newspaper -- Current number, last year -- % Change

USA TODAY (AKA "The Nations' Doormat") -- 2,293,137 -- 2,269,509 -- (+1.04%)

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- 2,011,882 -- 2,043,235 -- (-1.53%)

THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 1,037,828 -- 1,086,797 – (-4.51%)

LOS ANGELES TIMES -- 779,682 -- 775,765 -- (+0.50%)

DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK -- 681,415 -- 693,423 – (-1.73%)

NEW YORK POST -- 667,119 -- 704,011 – (-5.24%)

THE WASHINGTON POST -- 635,087 -- 656,298 – (-3.23%)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- 559,404 -- 576,131 –(-2.90%)

HOUSTON CHRONICLE -- 507,437 -- 508,091 – (-0.13%)

NEWSDAY -- 387,503 -- 410,578 – (-5.62%)

THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- 382,414 -- 397,295 – (-3.75%)

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS -- 373,586 -- 404,652 – (-7.68%)

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- 365,234 -- 373,805 -- (-2.29%)

BOSTON GLOBE -- 360,695 -- 386,417 – (-6.66%)

THE STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK, N.J. -- 353,003 -- 363,100 – (-2.78%)

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -- 338,260 -- 330,622 -- (+2.31%)

STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS -- 335,443 -- 358,887 – (-6.53%)

THE PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND -- 334,195 -- 336,940 – (-0.81%)

DETROIT FREE PRESS -- 320,125 -- 328,719 – (-2.61%)

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION -- 318,350 -- 350,159 – (-9.08%)

THE OREGONIAN, PORTLAND -- 309,467 -- 310,805 – (-0.43%)

ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES -- 288,807 -- 288,679 -- 0.04%

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER -- 278,507 -- 287,204 – (-3.03%)

SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE -- 278,379 -- 304,334 -- (-8.53%)

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH -- 265,111 -- 276,677 – (-4.18%)

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Total Paid Sunday Circulation

Newspaper -- Current number, last year -- % Change

THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 1,500,394 -- 1,623,698 – (-7.59%)

LOS ANGELES TIMES -- 1,112,165 -- 1,172,004 – (-5.11%)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- 917,868 -- 937,906 – (-2.14%)

THE WASHINGTON POST -- 894,428 -- 930,620 – (-3.89%)

DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK -- 726,305 -- 779,346 – (-6.81%)

HOUSTON CHRONICLE -- 693,228 -- 692,593 -- (+0.09%)

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -- 662,304 -- 682,252 – (-2.92%)

DETROIT FREE PRESS -- 628,839 -- 656,953 – (-4.28%)

DENVER POST/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS -- 600,229 -- 694,053 – (-13.52%)

STAR TRIBUNE OF MINNEAPOLIS -- 570,443 -- 596,330 – (-4.34%)

BOSTON GLOBE -- 548,906 -- 587,289 – (-6.54%)

THE STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK, N.J. -- 534,128 -- 565,640 -- (-5.57%)

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS -- 523,313 -- 566,608 – (-7.64%)

THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- 480,585 -- 503,952 – (-4.64%)

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION -- 475,988 -- 523,968 – (-9.16%)

NEWSDAY -- 454,194 -- 474,749 – (-4.33%)

THE PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND -- 445,795 -- 446,484 – (-0.15%)

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- 430,115 -- 432,957 – (-0.66%)

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, TIMES -- 420,587 -- 423,275 – (-0.64%)

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH -- 420,222 -- 418,443 – (+0.43%)

NEW YORK POST -- 405,486 -- 427,264 – (-5.10%)

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL -- 390,840 -- 401,379 – (-2.63%)

ST. PETERSBURG TIMES -- 389,952 -- 386,664 -- (+0.85%)

THE OREGONIAN, PORTLAND -- 371,386 -- 375,757 – (-1.16%)

THE SUN, BALTIMORE -- 364,827 -- 380,701 – (-4.17%)

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[Milhous]

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[bajabaja]

Somebody needs to tell the newspapers they are in a recession. Seems they think the US economy is in one, despite +3.9% growth numbers recently.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Daily and Sunday circulation at the San Francisco Chronicle has stabilized, down 2.9% to 365,234 and 0.6% to 430,115, respectively.

If continually going down is stabilizing, it won't be long before the paper is fully stabilized.

[Bob]

It would be interesting to see the population change in these circulation areas over the same time periods. If the population is going up while the circulation is going down, the situation is actually worse than the absolute comparisons would indicate.

[listenhillary]

While we celebrate the demise of some newspapers, we need to think about what will take it’s place.

How do we pay investigative reporters so they don’t go away? Better question. How do we judge the balance of the investigative reporting with out having to become investigative reporters ourselves?

Do we have reporters that have the conservative seal of approval? Or the liberal seal of approval? Let them get away with little lies and let mediamatters or Free Republic and bloggers separate the wheat from the chaff?

[Secret Agent Man]

I think all newspapers need to go paperless in order to do their part in ‘saving the planet’. /sarc

Actually it would probably help them from a monetary standpoint. Push them into 21st century journalism and setting up podcasts, subscriber services, allowing people to be sent stories on topic areas they select (that the reader is interested in), etc. etc.

The ones that did a better job at true factual reporting (as opposed to editorializing pieces that are not editorials) will gain popularity, the others will attract democrats who won’t want to pay for anything.

[Doctor Raoul]

I ran the nubers on the PINKY, Philadelphia Inquirer, and when you look at how much the made 6 days a week, versus the loss in Sunday revenue, it's a wash.

But the Sunday paper carries more advertising and when it drops 6%, the rate they can charge will fall.

PINKY's in a death spiral.