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Posted on 11/03/2003 5:42:14 PM PST by Pikamax
Circulation of the Nation's 20 Biggest Newspapers The Associated Press Published: Nov 3, 2003
Average weekday circulation of the nation's 20 biggest newspapers for the six months ended Sept. 30, as reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percentage changes are from the comparable year-ago period.
1. USA Today, 2,246,996, up 0.7 percent
2. The Wall Street Journal, 2,091,062, up 16.1 percent (a)
3. The New York Times, 1,118,565, up 0.5 percent
4. Los Angeles Times, 955,211, down 1.1 percent (b)
5. The Washington Post, 732,872, down 1.9 percent
6. New York Daily News, 729,124, up 2.1 percent
7. New York Post, 652,426, up 10.6 percent
8. Chicago Tribune, 613,509 (NM)
9. Newsday of New York's Long Island, 580,069, up 0.2 percent
10. Houston Chronicle, 553,018, up 0.2 percent (b)
11. The Dallas Morning News, 525,441, up 0.7 percent
12. San Francisco Chronicle, 512,640, up 0.1 percent
13. Chicago Sun-Times, 481,798, up 0.5 percent
14. The Boston Globe, 450,538, down 3.7 percent
15. The Arizona Republic, 432,284, down 3.7 percent (b)
16. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 408,672 (NM)
17. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 382,421, up 0.2 percent
18. Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 380,354, up 0.3 percent (b)
19. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 376,493, up 0.7 percent
20. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 365,288, up 0.4 percent (b)
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(a) Beginning with this reporting period, The Wall Street Journal's total paid subscription figure includes subscribers to its online edition that meet the qualifications for paid subscription under ABC guidelines. In this period, 290,412 online subscribers qualified under the ABC's definition. Without the online subscribers, the amount of paid print subscribers - 1,800,650 - was essentially unchanged from the same period a year ago.
(b) Includes Saturday circulation
(NM) Change from year-ago period too small to be meaningful in percentage terms.
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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How to spot the fake New Yorker: Have them pronounce "Staten Island Advance".
As the WSJ likes to say itself, they're about the only paper in the county that a lot of people subscribe to just for the editorial page.
"HmmmMmMmMmmMmMMMMmmmmm...."
To qualify the on-line suscription must be at least 25% of the cost of the print paper. If you don't get the print paper, the on-line is $79/yr. If you get the paper, it is $39, which doesn't meet the 25% standard. About 400,000 people get both.
The New York Times circulation is NOT up. First of all, keep in mind that a 0.5% increase in circulation is practically statistical noise. Second, and far more importantly, note that these numbers are compared to the same period a year ago, not the prior six months. On March 30, their circulation was 1,130,740. That means that in the last six months, the Times's circulation has DROPPED 1.1 percent.
See post 26, Stroking-Chin Boy. Their circulation is actually DOWN 1.1% since the Iraq/Jayson Blair scandals hit.
Their version is just another means of distribution.
I would agree. I'm an on-line subscriber because I hate dealing with used newspapers. If there's an article I want to keep, I save it to my hard drive. There it's filed and indexed so I can find it again, unlike my husband's four crates of 20 year old clippings.
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