FAS-FAX Circ Numbers for the Top 25 Dailies and Sunday Papers

By: E&P Staff Here are the Top 25 Daily and Sunday Newspaper lists from ABC for the six-month period ending March 2007. Industry-wide, circulation slipped more than 2% daily and 3.1% for Sunday. All daily averages below are for Monday-Friday. The comparisons are based on the six-month period ending March 2007 and the six-month period ending March 2006.

Newspaper, Daily circ as of 3/31/07; % Change:

USA TODAY 2,278,022; (+0.23%)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2,062,312; (+0.61%)
NEW YORK TIMES, 1,120,420; (-1.93%)
LOS ANGELES TIMES, 815,723; (-4.24%)
NEW YORK POST, 724,748; (+7.63%)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 718,174; (+1.37%)
WASHINGTON POST, 699,130; (-3.47%)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 566,827; (-2.12%)
HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 503,114; (-2.00%)
ARIZONA REPUBLIC 433,731; (-1.14%)
DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 411,919; (-14.27%)
NEWSDAY, 398,231; (-6.91%)
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, 386,564; (-2.93%)
BOSTON GLOBE, 382,503; (-3.72%)
STAR-LEDGER OF NEWARK, 372,629; (-6.08%)
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 357,399; (-2.09%)
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 352,593; (+0.61%)
STAR TRIBUNE OF MINNEAPOLIS, 345,252; (-4.88%)
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, 344,704; (+0.45%)
DETROIT FREE PRESS, 329,989; (-4.70%)
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 322,771; (-0.08%)
PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 319,625; (-1.05%)
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 296,331; (-6.58%)
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 284,613; (-5.07%)
SACRAMENTO BEE, 279,032; (-4.83%)


Newspaper, Sunday circ as of 3/31/07; % Change:

NEW YORK TIMES, 1,627,062; (-3.37%)
LOS ANGELES TIMES, 1,173,096; (-4.73%)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 940,620; (-1.73%)
WASHINGTON POST, 929,921; (-3.20%)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 775,543; (-2.47%)
DENVER POST/ ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, 704,168; (-0.79%)
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 688,670; (-2.45%)
HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 677,425; (-2.18%)
DETROIT FREE PRESS, 640,356; (change in frequency)
STAR TRIBUNE OF MINNEAPOLIS, 574,406; (-5.32%)
STAR-LEDGER OF NEWARK, 570,523; (-4.33%)
DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 563,079; (-13.33%)
BOSTON GLOBE, 562,273; (-6.92%)
ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 541,757; (-2.64%)
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 523,687; (-6.72%)
NEWSDAY, 464,169; (-5.04%)
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, 442,482; (-1.86%)
NEW YORK POST, 439,202; (+6.15%)
SAN FRANSICO CHRONICLE, 438,006; (-2.99%)
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 430,893;(+2.01%)
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER/ TIMES, 423,635; (-2.74%)
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 407,754; (-3.67%)
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 400,317; (-1.24%)
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 378,696; (-7.27%)
BALTIMORE SUN, 377,561; (-6.06%)
PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 375,913; (-2.29%)

***

Related E&P Stories:

-- NAA Analysis of ABC Confirms Overall Circ Slide

-- ABC Reveals Big Drops in Circ in Spring 2007