New data showed that the average daily common circulation of the 25 largest audited newspapers in the United States decreased by 12.7 % in the year to the end of September 2024.
The numbers, which are provided by pressing the newspaper by the coalition for the audited media, show that none of the United States titles increases its circulation compared to the same period in 2023.
The largest change on an annual basis in Los Angeles Times, which witnessed the average daily printing circulation by 25 % of approximately 106,000 in the six months to September 30, 2023 to 79,000 in the same period of 2024.
It does not cover the last weeks that preceded the presidential elections for the year 2024, when the owner Patrick Sun Syong entered to prevent the paper editor -in -chief from supporting the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris. According to her own reports Several thousand suffered from canceling the subscription as a result.
Collectively, the 25 sheets traded in this analysis 1.97 million editions per day on the six months to September, a decrease from 2.26 million in 2023.
The 12.7 % decrease was somewhat sacrificed from the previous year, when the 25 best American newspapers recorded a decrease of 14 %.
The Wall Street Journal, the Wall Street Journal, has witnessed a decrease of 14.7 % from 555,000 to 474,000-which means that any American newspaper now has a circulation of more than half a million.
The magazine followed the New York Times (average trading of 250,000) and New York Post (122,000), both of which recorded trading declines less than average by 6.4 % and 6.9 %, respectively.
The smallest declines in Honolulu stars in Hawaii (70,000, a decrease of 2.4 %) and Florida Tamba Bay Times (61000, a decrease of 2.7 %). In general, six newspapers reported trading drops less than 10 % a year.
Among the ten papers with the largest decrease in blood circulation seven owned by the hedge box Aldeen Global Capital. The largest decrease after the Los Angeles Times in San Diego Union Tribune, owned by the lowest (30,000, a decrease of 22.5 %), followed by four other papers for the low 19.7 %), Denver Post (30,000 , 19.2 % decrease) and Chicago Tribune (61000, a decrease of 17.1 %).
Amid the continuous decrease in printing, many of these publications have seen much more success than their digital readers. The New York Times, for example, is now about 11 million digital subscribers (although a third of them does not pay for news) and the Wall Street Journal contains 3.78 million.
At the end of September, the Gannett, which published USA Today, had two million digital subscribers, and Boston Globe had 260,000.
It seems that many other publishers on the above table have more than 100,000 digital subscriptions for each of them, but they have not reported up to some time. This includes the Washington Post (2.5 million at the beginning of 2021, but it is said that it decreased by 10 % after its support scandal last year), and the Den Tribune (436,000 at the end of 2020) and the Hurst newspapers (370,000 at the beginning of 2023 were published.
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