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Most Papers Again Report Big Declines In Circulation
Top American newspapers posted further declines in weekday circulation in the six-month period ended in March, with the exception of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Apart from those two national dailies, which eked out gains of under 1 percent each, every other newspaper in the top 20 posted declines, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
USA Today, owned by Gannett, remained the top-selling paper in the country, with an average daily circulation of 2,284,219, up 0.3 percent.
The Wall Street Journal kept its No. 2 spot at 2,069,463, up 0.4 percent. The News Corporation, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, bought Dow Jones & Company, The Journal’s parent company, in December.
The New York Times was No. 3 at 1,077,256, but that was down 3.9 percent from the period a year earlier. The New York Times Company also owns The Boston Globe and The International Herald Tribune.
Newspaper circulation has been on a declining trend since the 1980s, but the pace of decline has picked up in recent years as more people go to the Internet for news, information and entertainment.
Metropolitan dailies have suffered the worst declines, a trend that continued in the most recent reporting period, with The Dallas Morning News reporting a 10.6 percent drop, to 368,313.
Other metropolitan dailies also posted steep declines, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, down 8.5 percent, to 326,907, and The Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, down 6.7 percent, to 321,984.
The Daily News of New York narrowly kept the upper hand on its crosstown tabloid rival, The New York Post, owned by Mr. Murdoch.
The Daily News posted a 2.1 percent decline, to 703,137, while The Post fell 3.1 percent, to 702,488.
Both Mr. Murdoch and the owner of The Daily News, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, want to acquire Newsday on neighboring Long Island, which the Tribune Company has decided to consider selling as it struggles with declining ad revenue and an $8.2 billion debt load.
Newsday posted a 4.7 percent decline in circulation, to 379,613.
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2 Responses to “Most Papers Again Report Big Declines In Circulation”
Posted on 29 Apr 2008 at 5:29 pm by Cord;ey Coit
As pointed out to me the reason is simple. The nature of print news has changed and providers can not figure out how to handle the sea change the Internet brought.
In Denver they came up with a liberal bias (no Boondocks, no controversy, no arts coverage) lots of PC and Post is sinking like a stone. The Rocky is about the same on the Republican side, they are doing a tad better.
They are dying from lack of relevant reporting and intelligent editorial stands.
The NYT is bumbling along with some good work but the smell of rot is in the air there.
Washington Post is there playing in the rubble of the Bush mess like a five year old on an abandoned battle ground only a matter of time before they find something really deadly to trod upon.
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Posted on 30 Apr 2008 at 5:37 am by davy
You can only bull**** the people so long before they lose interest. No where in America is it so clear that corporate control will be the end of us, creating a land of barking dogs, minions and shills. Just cause you wear a cowboy hat doesn’t make you a cowboy.
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