Off the Charts

[don]

Some surprising trends: the New York Post has the same circulation it had two decades ago! Also, the once-captivating battle of the New York City tabloids has become completely moot.

Some unsurprising trends: the Los Angeles Times is an absolute horrorshow. Not shown: the Boston Globe disappearing off the bottom of this chart, in a two decade decline from 521,000 in 1990 to 264,105 this year.


http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/a-grap...st-two-decades

Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.

(Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)

[GRG55]

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...Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.

(Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)

I was going to read this post, but it would have cut into my allocated TV time...

[don]

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I was going to read this post, but it would have cut into my allocated TV time...

I understand....

[ASH]

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Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.

(Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)

Would have been helpful to include a stat on how many hours a day people spend reading news on-line. I read a fair amount of news, but none of it in printed form.

[D-Mack]

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Would have been helpful to include a stat on how many hours a day people spend reading news on-line. I read a fair amount of news, but none of it in printed form.

I haven't seen numbers, but I bet it's a lot.. And why limit yourself to one paper ?

Newspapers have seen their circulation decline sharply in recent years as readers increasingly have turned to online sources for news. Many of these websites are operated by the same newspapers that are losing traditional subscribers, but publishers are struggling to bring in enough online ad dollars to replace the loss of print advertising. And readers have been reluctant to pay for access to newspaper websites.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...tory?track=rss

[don]

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Would have been helpful to include a stat on how many hours a day people spend reading news on-line. I read a fair amount of news, but none of it in printed form.

The only reference to that is in the WSJ numbers, when they began including their online readers in their sub database. I agree that's an important missing number. Another unmentioned factor is the big falloff in newspaper ads. Of equal weight as readership numbers.

[globaleconomicollaps]

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distribution of international newspapers has dropped as well. I wanted to take Le Monde, but the only US distributor has gone out of business. A few of these papers do not have web sites, or sites that don't contain all the news in the printed version.

[idianov]

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Here is the company that filled a niche for out of market same day delivery of printed international newspapers anywhere in the world:

NewspaperDirect, http://www.newspaperdirect.com

The same company offers electronic newspaper distribution via paid subscription through a website called http://www.pressdisplay.com.

Igor