Editor and Publisher, a journal covering the newspaper industry, has released the latest circulation figures for the top 25 newspapers across the country. The news is just ghastly. In the last six months:
- The San Francisco Chronicle lost 25% of its subscribers
- The Boston Globe lost more than 18% of its subscribers
- USA Today lost more than 17% of its subscribers
- The Baltimore Sun lost more than 15% of its subscribers
Click here to see the full article and check on the status of your hometown paper. Better enjoy it while you can.
Hat tip to Tech Crunch for bringing this to my attention.
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Ghastly? I think that’s a matter of perspective. I embrace the fall of print media, and the inevitable reduction in paper consumption it will bring about.
I agree with Aj ~ I’m enjoying the blogosphere and am seeing a meteoric rise in the home-town newspaper. We “lost” three “big ones” over the summer, and at least six grassroots enterprises sprang up in their place. The “big ones” are making a comeback, but I’ll be very surprised if they replace the small ones that have very quickly developed loyal readerships. The smaller, home-town papers list tons of local news, community events, school sports and convey to their readers a very strong sense of “this is all about US.” Granted, that’s twice the paper consumption, in one sense, but these papers are placed and voluntarily picked up by consumers ~ they are not mass-mailed to households which won’t even open them, nor do they contain the magazine-style inserts that the bigger papers did.
What’s a newspaper?