Year-over-Year Change in Total More-than-50% Individually Paid Circulation

By: Year-over-Year Change in Total More-than-50% Individually Paid Circulation

Ranked Worst to Best, March 2004, Daily and Sunday circulation

Rank Paper Mar. '03 Sep.'03 Mar. '04

1San Jose Mercury News-1.6%-12.0%-16.4%

2Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald-0.8%-4.5%-14.7%

3Denver JOA-4.1%-7.5%-11.8%

4Los Angeles Times-1.6%-5.1%-9.0%

5The Buffalo (N.Y.) News-1.6%-6.3%-7.8%

6San Francisco Chronicle-3.3%-4.7%-7.2%

7South Florida Sun-Sentinel1.4%-1.5%-6.7%

8Houston Chronicle-4.9%-5.9%-6.5%

9Wisconsin State Journal0.7%-0.9%-6.3%

10Boston Globe-6.0%-4.0%-5.4%

11Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel-2.9%-5.9%-4.9%

12Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-1.6%-1.7%-4.7%

13Minneapolis Star-Tribune-1.4%-2.9%-4.7%

14The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer0.1%-3.3%-4.4%

15The Hartford (Ct.) Courant -4.0%-4.9%-4.1%

16The Arizona Republic-2.5%-4.0%-4.1%

17The Tennessean, Nashville -1.1%-5.3%-3.9%

18The Washington Post-9.2%-3.0%-3.9%

19Saint Paul Pioneer Press-1.3%-0.2%-3.9%

20Fort Worth Star-Telegram0.8%-0.7%-3.7%

21The Philadelphia Inquirer-3.3%-4.3%-3.5%

22Detroit JOA-3.1%-5.5%-3.5%

23The Dallas Morning News *-0.6%-2.2%-3.2%

24St. Louis Post-Dispatch-1.9%-6.1%-3.1%

25The Sun, Baltimore -4.8%-3.3%-3.1%

26The Providence (R.I.) Journal-0.4%-1.3%-2.9%

27Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal-1.7%-1.8%-2.8%

28The New York Times-7.8%-0.3%-2.5%

29Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel-3.4%-3.0%-2.5%

30St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times-2.4%-2.0%-2.3%

Note these are the first 30 out of 44 newspapers listed. Deutsche Bank weighted daily circulation by 60% and Sunday by 40% to arrive at the average change.

*The Dallas Morning News' figures are not adjusted for the recent circulation overstatements.