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top 25 daily newspapers in the U.S. by circulation
2006-10-30
Here are the top 25 daily newspapers in the U.S. by circulation (with percent change) for the six-month period ending September 2006.

1. USA Today: 2,269509, (-1.3%)
Main circulation point is that it's sold nationwide. America's plain vanilla, mostly liberal, newspaper. Gives you something to read at McDonalds.
2. The Wall Street Journal: 2,043235, (-1.9%)
3. The New York Times: 1,086,798, (-3.5%)
4. Los Angeles Times: 775,766, (-8.0%)
Times, both Noo Yawk and Lost Angeles, become more lefty ideological, watch circulation drift. Noo Yawk version has the virtue of reputation, disadvantage of Maureen Dowd. LA version has... ummm... free Streisand tickets? That makes it decline and fall record holder, barely edging out Philly Inquirer.
5. The New York Post: 704,011, 5.3%
6. Daily News: 693,382, 1.0%
Noo Yawk bloids are actually competing with each other, Post conservative, Daily Nooze wobbly.
7. The Washington Post: 656,297, (-3.3%)
8. Chicago Tribune: 576,132, (-1.7%)
9. Houston Chronicle: 508,097, (-3.6%)
10. Newsday: 413,579, (-4.9%)
11. The Arizona Republic, Phoenix: 397,294, (-2.5%)
12. The Boston Globe: 386,415, (-6.7%)
Ideology index up, circulation down.
13. The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.: 378,100, (-5.5%)
14. San Francisco Chronicle: 373,805, (-5.3%)
The Comical's target audience seems to be homeless people and the bathouse community. One doesn't buy newspapers.
15. The Star Tribune, Minneapolis: 358,887, (-4.1%)
16. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 350,157, (-3.4%)
17. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland: 336,939, (-0.6%)
18. The Philadelphia Inquirer: 330,622, (-7.5%)
Used to be a good, if liberal, newspaper. Shows a breathtaking decline in quality, now merely liberal.
19. Detroit Free Press: 328,628, (-3.6%)
20. The Oregonian, Portland: 310,803, (-6.8%)
21. The San Diego Union-Tribune: 304,334, (-3.1%)
22. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times: 288,676, (-3.2%)
23. The Orange County (Calif.) Register: 287,204, (-3.7%)
24. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 276,588, 0.6%
25. The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee: 273,609, (-5.4%)
Posted by:Fred

#9  Same here with the Seattle Piss-Eye. Not even on the list - neither is the Seattle Times.

I wonder how many of the USA Today and 'Noo Yawk Times' numbers are from hotel chains?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-10-30 15:47  

#8  Hell, my hometown rag, the Pissburgh Post-Gazette didn't even make the list. It's doing so poorly that the Block family is trying to unload it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2006-10-30 15:41  

#7  And the Defender-Scimitar is 26th, and climbing!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-10-30 15:31  

#6  The New York Post: 704,011, 5.3%
Daily News: 693,382, 1.0%
St. Louis Post Dispatch, .6%

Yellow says NYP is conservative, Daily News wobbly and I don't know about the SLPD.

Those were the only three that were up.

Posted by: Clkethel OHlkdj   2006-10-30 14:28  

#5  the bathouse community.

Was that a freudian slip or snark? Either way, it works.
Posted by: xbalanke   2006-10-30 13:55  

#4  I wonder how many of these papers are owned by the same group? Does anyone know?
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-10-30 13:46  

#3  So glad I'm doing my part with the Boston Globe numbers...
Posted by: Raj   2006-10-30 13:24  

#2  Rush Limbaugh radio talk show daily audience;
22,000,000 estimated. Where would you advertise ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-30 13:21  

#1  One of you math majors ought to do an ideology vs. circulation change graph, but I suspect a high degree of correlation....
Posted by: Bobby   2006-10-30 13:19  

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