Posted on 04/27/2010 3:00:23 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The spring Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) Fas-Fax report was released in the middle of earnings season. And so the many newspapers reporting that ad revenue was still falling, but at a slower pace, were mostly also posting circ numbers that continue to slide but not accelerate.
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
| Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Listed by Daily Circulation | ||||||||
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| Name | Circulation | % Change |
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| 1. The Wall Street Journal | 2,092,523 |
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| 2. USA Today | 1,826,622 | -13.58% |
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| 3. The New York Times | 951,063 | -8.47% | ||||||
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| 4. Los Angeles Times | 616,606 | -14.74% | ||||||
| 5. Washington Post | 578,482 |
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-13.06% | |||||
| 6. Daily News | 535,059 | -11.25% |
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| 7. New York Post | 525,004 | -5.94% | ||||||
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| 8. San Jose Mercury News* | 516,701 | N/A | ||||||
| 9. Chicago Tribune | 452,145 |
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-9.79% | |||||
| 10. Houston Chronicle | 366,578 | -13.77% |
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| 11. The Philadelphia Inquirer** | 356,189 | N/A | ||||||
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| 12. The Arizona Republic | 351,207 | -9.88% | ||||||
| 13. Newsday | 334,809 |
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-9.07% | |||||
| 14. The Denver Post*** | 333,675 | N/A |
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| 15. Star Tribune, Minneapolis | 295,438 | -7.71% | ||||||
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| 16. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times | 278,888 | -1.49% | ||||||
| 17. Chicago Sun-Times | 268,803 |
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-13.88% | |||||
| 18. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland | 267,888 | -8.14% |
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| 19. The Oregonian | 263,600 | -1.83% | ||||||
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| 20. The Seattle Times | 263,468 | N/A | ||||||
| 21. The Dallas Morning News | 260,659 |
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-21.47% | |||||
| 22. Detroit Free Press | 252,017 | -13.31% |
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| 23. San Diego Union-Tribune | 249,630 | -4.45% | ||||||
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| 24. San Francisco Chronicle | 241,330 | -22.68% | ||||||
| 25. The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J. | 236,017 |
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-17.79% | |||||
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| * The Mercury News since 1/1/10 has made Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times editions of the daily. | ||||||||
| **Philadelphia Daily News circ is now included as an edition of the Inquirer. | ||||||||
| ***In Seattle and Denver, joint operating agreement partners ceased publishing a print newspaper. | ||||||||
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Finally, some GOOD news.
Which Leftist or group of Leftists will try and hide the decline?
Yes, it is good news. And no the Left will not be able to hide the decline, but will try.
The controversy recently about “inflated” circulation numbers has damaged the Newspaper’s credibility with advertisers.
Ad budgets are tight, and the circulation numbers are audited.
But none of this addresses the issue. It is about “content” not media. (Print or electronic) It is about content and exposure. The newspapers are dying because of the amazing efficiencies of composing a paper using AP, that is so bad no one wants to read it.
If Obozo improved his rate of doing nothing, it would be a vast improvement.
His is an intentional destruction of the Nation. We the People must stop him.
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