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Largest Newspaper Circulation

Monday October 26, 2009

A new report on the newspaper circulation numbers of the largest newspapers in the United States reveal that newspaper circulation is in decline. According to the Los Angeles Times: "The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported today that the average weekday circulation of the nearly 400 daily papers that reported sales slid 10.6% between April and September compared to the same six-month period in 2008." The largest newspapers in the United States and their circulation as of this report are:

1) Wall Street Journal - 2 million

2) USA Today - 1.9 million

3) New York Times - 927,000

4) Los Angeles Times - 657,000

5) Washington Post - 583,000

Comments

November 2, 2009 at 2:30 am
(1) Don Hirschberg says:

What a pity . I remember the Chicago Trib at over 2 million per day, and it didn’t look like US Today. Instead it was and looked like a real newspaper.

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