By: E&P Staff The FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, released this afternoon, brought good news for the majority of the dozen biggest newspapers, but many other top 50 papers lost readers on weekdays for the six-month period ending March 31, compared with the same period last year. Among those with weekday circulation declines (last year's numbers in parentheses):
San Francisco Chronicle (M-F) 501,135 (514,265)
Chicago Sun-Times (M-F) 486,936 (488,487)
Philadelphia Daily News (M-F) 139,983 (150,734)
Cleveland Plain Dealer (M-Sat) 367,528 (373,137)
The Buffalo (N.Y.) News (M-Sat) 201,900 (218,389)
The Oregonian, Portland (M-F) 342,040 (344,552)
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch (M-S) 259,127 (261,568)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (M-F) 245,065 (248,176)
Fort Worth Texas) Star-Telegram (M-Thurs) 227,474 (228,325)
The Washington Post (M-F) 772,553 (796,367)
The Arizona Republic, Phoenix (M-Sat) 466,926 (486,131)
The Seattle Times (M-F) 237,303 (239,468)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (M-F) 150,901 (155,813)
The Denver Post (M-F) 286,197 (301,107)
Rocky Mountain News, Denver (M-F) 286,004 (301,004)
Among those showing gains or mixed results:
Star Tribune, Minneapolis (M-Sat) 377,058 (375,506)
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News (M-Sat) 279,539 (276,786)
Houston Chronicle (M-Sat) 549,300 (548,508)
Boston Globe (M-F) 452,109 (448,775)
Boston Herald (M-F) 248,988 (247,886)
Newsday, Melville, N.Y. (M-F) 580,000 (579,351)
The New York Times (M-F) 1,133,763 (1,130,740)
The San Diego Union-Tribune (M-Wed) 328,317 (346,387)
(Thurs-Sat) 383,224 (380,723)
Chicago Tribune (M-Tue) 495,403 (512,150)
(Wed-Fri) 693,978 (693,659)
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