Posted on 04/27/2009 4:53:18 AM PDT by abb
The Audit Bureau of Circulations released this morning the spring figures for the six months ending March 31, 2009, showing that country’s largest metros continue to shed daily and Sunday circulation.
The percent comparisons are for the same period ending in March 2008. (All daily averages are for Monday through Friday.)
Daily circulation at The New York Times dropped 3.5% to 1,039,031. Sunday circulation was down 1.7% to 1,451,233.
The Washington Post lost 1.6% of its daily circ to 665,383 and 2.3% to 868,965.
USA Today, as reported earlier this month, lost 7.4% of its daily circulation to 2,113,725 due to a decline in hotel copies.
Daily circulation at The Wall Street Journal was up a fraction 0.6% to 2,082,189, but this was certainly the exception, not the rule.
Daily circulation at The Boston Globe skidded 13.6% to 302,638 copies. Sunday decreased 11.2% to 466,665.
Tribune Co. papers made highly-touted redesigns in this period, but lost readers. The Chicago Tribune lost 7.4% of its daily circulation to 501,202 and 4.5% on Sunday to 858,256 copies. Circulation plunged at The Los Angeles Times at 6.5% of its daily circulation (Monday through Friday) to 723,181 copies. Sunday was down 7.4% to 1,019,388.
Daily circulation at The Miami Herald plunged 15.8% to 202,122. Sunday declined 13.1% to 270,166.
San Francisco Chronicle shed 15.7% of daily copies to 312,118. Sunday fell 16.5% to 312,118.
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland lost 11.7% of its average daily circulation to 291,630. Sunday was down 8.15 to 393,352.
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I wonder how much of the circulation problems are related to recycling laws. One of the main reasons why we cut our paper down to Sunday only, even though the extra cost to get it every day is minimal, is that we have to store and bundle all of those papers to put them out for recycling, which is a pain in the neck.
Some papers may have lost some due to the snow birds going back home up north. Northern papers may rise in a couple of weeks while southern papers level off at a lower rate.
1) Conservatives HATING the editorial stance of today's newspaper editor-in-chiefs.
2) Liberals now flocking to web sites like Huffington Post and Daily Kos.
3) EVERYONE wanting their news delivered faster.
4) Craigslist killing classified revenue at newspapers.
No wonder newspapers are dying.
Makes one wonder if it is worthwhile for the tree to die in the first place in order to print the trash, doesn't it?
I cut out one side of a milk box and lay some twine along the inside then put my papers inside the box on top of the twine and about once a month tie them up and drop them off at a recycle bin which are all over down Florida way.
I’m really worried that the next thing 0 will do is bail out the newspapers with our tax dollars.
How can the nation survive without the NYT and the Boston Glob? /sarc
I don’t want to see more Chapter 11 fillings, I want to see liquidation, a la the Rocky Mountain News.
My local paper is about 80% regurgitation from the AssPress.
Exactly....
As long as all these newspapers around the country keep quoting from the AP, the American people will stay brainwashed. Obama's ratings will stay high with all the support he gets from the AP.
The Wall Street Journal has excellent coverage of national and international news. It’s not just financial. It says it like it is, without the liberal bias.
Subscribe to it and drop local liberal rags.
I wonder what the declines are for the Detroit papers. They ended home delivery on some weekdays this month. That’s got to hurt.
We dumped the local rag many years ago and never missed it. Then my wife renewed it this year when it became heavily discounted...she claims the coupons are worth putting up with the constant trash that is this rag.
Our local paper, currently known as the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation (Journal-Constitution)has announced the big unveiling of their NEW look and feel with Wednesday’s paper.
We are anxiously awaiting to see if they live up to their announcement that the paper will be more “center” and balanced. A few recent moves hint that might be the case. They relocated the controversial ultra-lib Op Ed editor, Cynthia Tucker to Washington Correspondent (good riddance). They did have a big front page splash on the Tea Parties rather than ignoring them as many papers did.
So we are really hoping that they have seen the writing on the wall and will try the fair and balanced approach. I just hope that their definition of “center” is not too far on the other side of real center. That remains to be seen.
I’m a almost radical conservative who ALWAYS read the Boston Globe. I didn’t mind the liberal editorials as they generally made me feel MENTALLY SUPERIOR to those idiots.
I dropped the Glub years ago when the NEWS REPORTING mirrored the views of the editors. The NEWS and the EDITORIALS were once separate and NOT interchangeable.
Bye Bye Globe.
I just finished calling them and they told me I had a free one month trial, 7-day, subscription that I could renew for a year for just the price of the Sunday paper.
I told them I did not want their piece of liberal trash on my property and to cancel the delivery immediately.
The person on the other end didn't sound very pleased.
I noticed that all the ‘news’ and ‘weather’ programs have now started mentioning how they consult TWITTER to get their information.
The funny part is they (the talking heads on the news) call it TWITTING, instead of TWITTERING.
TWITTING. It fits.
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