Posted on 04/26/2010 10:54:19 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
NEW YORK – Circulation continues to drop severely at U.S. newspapers, though the rate of decline slowed from the previous six-month reporting period.
Figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show average weekday circulation fell 8.7 percent in the six months that ended March 31, compared with the same period a year earlier. Sunday circulation fell 6.5 percent.
That's a slight improvement from April through September of last year, when average weekday circulation dropped 10.6 percent from a year earlier and Sunday circulation fell 7.5 percent.
Even so, the top 25 newspapers in the country showed some huge circulation losses.
The San Francisco Chronicle's weekday circulation dropped nearly 23 percent from the year before to 241,330. At The Washington Post, average weekday circulation fell 13.1 percent to 578,482 and dropped 8.2 percent to 797,679 on Sundays.
USA Today lost 13.6 percent of its circulation and averaged 1.83 million. That extended a slump that began with a slowdown in travel during the recession, which trimmed sales where USA Today is especially popular, such as hotels and airports.
In a way, the new circulation figures mirror the industry's advertising trends. While most major newspapers continue to see ad revenue decline compared with year-ago figures, the drop is becoming less extreme. Newspapers are getting some help from easy comparisons — they are holding their latest ad numbers up to results from the depths of the recession — but economic improvement is also starting to restore advertising budgets.
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Top 5 daily newspapers:
The Wall Street Journal + 0.5% 2.09 million.
USA Today -13.58% 1.83 million
The New York Times -8.47 % 951,063.
The Los Angeles Times -14.74% 616,606
The Washington Post -13.06% 578,482.
Happy Dance.
The less people read their vile propaganda, the less influence they have, and the less damage they can do to this country
I am subscribing to the WSJ spanking new special New York edition, just to bust the chops of the NY Times!
The Wall Street Journal + 0.5% 2.09 million.
The only paper providing accurate reporting and some good investigative work prospers.
Wow, who would have guessed?
Stopped by the grocery store paper rack this a.m. looking for the NYPost - not available!
However, the WaPo, USA Today and NYTimes were all displayed with a front page pic of BO at the Miners’ Memorial. You know the one - of the only family member he was able to grab onto for a photo-op.
Didn’t need that with my coffee!!!!
Once I started using the web (late 1990’s) I lost all interest in print media.
Heck, I used camelean in the mid-1990’s as a “green screen” web browser and got a lot of news sources. Nando Times was a favorite.
“However, the Journal would have had a slight decline in circulation were it only counting printed newspapers. The Journal's paid online circulation rose about 31,000 from a year ago to 414,025, offsetting a decline of about 20,000 on the print side”
When you have an excellent product, which is vastly more fair and balanced than the competition, readers will flock to your doors no matter what the format is.
what’s the current line on how soon a bailout proposal is going to be floated by the Obama Administration?
WSJ pre-Murdoch was better. Still too much open-borders crap and Taranto is an anti-birther.
My favorites run by conservatives who are NOT one-worlders, Davos stooges, Bilderburger, CFR elites are: (listed with owners names)
1. UK Telegraph - Barclay Brothers
2. UK Daily Mail - Barclay Brothers
3. Investors Business Daily - William O’Neil
The best 3. I still will support WSJ beating the NY Times brains out.
Thank god for the internet and the truth.
:-) MAKES MY DAY!!!!!!!!!
As readership losses start to include even the clymer press staff the rate of decline may be slightly lower than that of the general public.
Would this have anytyhing to do with our schools not teaching students how to read?
Naaaah.
Open borders crap was there long before Murdoch took over the WSJ. You are probably talking WSJ maybe 10 years ago, not just pre-Murdoch.
Post Murdoch, the WSJ is more conservative than it was pre-Murdoch. The WSJ has been at the front line of the anti-0bamcare fight, and have basically fought the 0bama regime's policies every inch of the way. They even published a hard hitting Op-Ed or two against 0bama from Sarah Palin, and Carl Rove regularly hammers 0bama in his WSJ Op-Eds. Try getting the New York Slimes to publish any article from Sarah Palin or Carl Rove right now.
Great Idea FormerACLUmember,
What a great way to protest using your wallet/
Also I think you have fabulous photos in your about page.
Things ok in N.Y.?
Spring there yet?
I don't believe that for one minute.
Well..there are all them free newspapers that are literally forced on you by these hustlers when you get out of the subway at Time Square every morning (and go straight into the bin at the next block). Those should account for a few million at least. LOL!
LOL! I had our local paper the “Courious Urinal”—aka Courier Journal—calling me this weekend wanting me to buy their paper. I just laughed at the guy and told them to call the local Marxist party office. I’m sure they’ll be glad to buy it.
The problem is not that their readership is going down, the problem is that Washington DC and NYC continues to read the NYT like they matter.
All outlets are not equal. Congress should not be treating CNN, MSNBC and FNC the same. (even FNC’s weekend crew is way left)
The problem for DC is that they are slooooowly running out of pro-left outlets.
The collapse is flattening out somewhat. I guess we must be getting down to the stubborn hard-core base of newspaper consumers - pet owners.
How long before the paper companies figure out that they can save the expense of actually printing words on the pages, and still sell the same amount of copy?
So?...I’ve been reading about the death of the mainstream media ( really the Marxist media) for years now. So?...When are they finally going to die?
It’s like watch an never ending “Night of the Living Dead” movie. The Marxist Media zombies just keep going and going and going.
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