From E&P:
The New York Times is down 7.2% to 927,851. Sunday fell 2.6% to 1,400,302.American's newspaper, USA Today, fell 17 percent, putting it below the Wall Street Journal, which saw a light uptick of .6 percent.
The Los Angeles Times reported its daily circ is off 11% to 657,467 and 6.7% on Sunday to 983,702.
Daily circ at The Washington Post fell 6.4% to 582,844 while Sunday was down 5% to 822,208.
Daily circ at the Chicago Tribune decreased 9.7% to 465,892. Sunday was down 7.1% to 803,220.
The San Francisco Chronicle lost more than a quarter of its daily circ, down 25.8% to 251,782. Sunday was off more than 22% to 306,705.
Daily at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., dropped 22.2% to 246,006 and 18.5% on Sunday to 371,060.
The Boston Globe's daily circ decreased 18.4% to 264,105. Sunday lost 16.9% to 418,529.
Alan Mutter at Reflections of a Newsosaur provides some context:
Following an average drop of 10.6% in the last six months, daily newspaper circulation has fallen to a pre-World War II low of an estimated 39.1 million, according to an analysis of industry data released today.
The first double-digit circulation decline in history means only 12.9% of the U.S. population buys a daily newspaper.
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Time to hire more managers and execs to figure out how to fix the problem.
Yes it is time. Get rid of more workers and hire more execs and managers (make sure they have nice offices too) and the problems shall be fixed lickety-split!
You have my second, er, third on that.
-- The Math Editor
It's interesting that they mention circulation is at a pre-World War II level.
Of course, there were fewer than half as man people in the country as there are now.
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