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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Newspapers Continue Decline

You'll be seeing a lot of analysis of declining newspaper circulations in the near future. Here, from Editor & Publisher, is some raw data:

New York Post flat at 678,086 M-F
New York Daily News down 12,000 copies M-F
New York Times up 3,000 copies M-F

Washington Post down 21,000 copies M-F
Washington Times up 3,000 copies M-F ('Nuff said!)

Boston Globe down 18,000 hit M-F
Boston Herald up 4,000 M-F

Chicago Tribune weekday down 6.9 percent, Sunday down 4.7 percent (h/t NYT)

Baltimore Sun, down every day, and down a lot on Fridays, at minus 49,000 copies

Los Angeles Times down daily 6.5 percent, down Sunday 7.9 percent (NYT)
Sacramento Bee up a couple thousand copies M-Sat
San Diego Union-Tribune down 18,000 copies M-Wed and 29,000 Thu-Sat.
San Francisco Chronicle way down, especially on Sundays, losing 43,000
Orange County Register down 9,000 copies M-Sat