CNN/AP: Newspaper Web sites up, print circulation down

[DeepModem Mom]

Newspaper Web sites up, print circulation down
Monday, May 8, 2006


The Philadelphia Inquirer saw a decline in circulation of 5.6 percent over a six-month period.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Newspaper circulation fell 2.6 percent in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, as more people turned to the Internet and other media outlets for news and information.

The decline in average paid weekday circulation was about the same as the previous six-month reporting cycle for the period ending last September, according to the Newspaper Association of America, a trade group.

Average paid circulation at Sunday newspapers fell 3.1 percent versus the same period a year ago, also a comparable decline with the last time circulation tallies were reported, the NAA said.

The figures were based on NAA's analysis of circulation figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a separate group which reports figures on individual newspapers but not industrywide data.

Despite the declines in paid copies, the NAA also reported Monday that newspaper-run Web sites had an 8 percent increase in viewers in the first quarter. The data from Nielsen/NetRatings found that newspaper Web sites averaged 56 million users in the period, or 37 percent of all online users in the period, the NAA said....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/08/newspapers.circulation.ap/index.html

[Notoverit]

1. Maybe if they told the truth once in a while....

[SpiralHawk]

3. It's radical statements like yours that cause

democracy to happen.


Be careful, citizen, Homelanders are watching, waiting to undo Americans.

[depakid]

23. We should also note how well CNN is doing-

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black....

Nielsen Media Research reported that Fox News' overall prime-time lineup dropped 17% last month compared with a year ago (MSNBC grew 16% during the same period, while CNN plummeted by 38%).

[Minnesota Libra]

2. I know a number of people - young and old - who discontinued or ..........

.....never have subscribed to the printed newspaper. People of all ages are now getting their news from cable TV:puke: or the Internet.:bounce:

[Robb]

4. The trouble is newspapers have no idea how to make money online

Website readership is up, but there's little/no revenue from it.

That's going to do wonders for already piss-poor coverage. :(

[Kolesar]

5. Cannot develop new subscribers because of the do-not-call list

To their credit, the newspapers were "better" at presenting the truth about the lead up to the War on Iraq. (the complement would be to say that they presented less lies and propaganda.)

I lament the newspapers failing and tv news taking over. Cable news is propaganda. The only network with anything to show for itself is CBS, on account of 60 Minutes. Local news is a joke. TV stations have scant reporting staff and they send them to cover house fires. They know nothing of background of voting stories, global warming, etc.

[KoKo]

7. Well...they could charge us $59.00 to subscribe like NYT's started doing.

Could be a subscription only soon. That would put a damper on readership online.

[Old and In the Way]

6. I think being in newspapers must be similar to what the horse-and-buggy

people were feeling when the model A's were rolling off the production line. It's simply a technology shift that is heavily penalizing the old media. The internet delivers content faster, it's more varied, with real time analysis. There isn't any part of anewspaper that can be done better on line - news, opinion, crosswords, funnies, ads. Interactive polling obviously is impossible. And there's the whole forest/paper thing, too. I suspect that the day will come when ads drop off and costs increase on those remaining readers...which will percipitate a faster decline.

They do need to figure out an online cost, if they are to survive.

[lovuian]

8. U.S. newspaper circulation keeps falling

U.S. newspaper circulation keeps falling

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=d077a83f15555fc5
U.S. newspaper circulation in the six months ended March 31 fell 2.6 percent, an industry group said Monday.

The Newspaper Association of America said circulation data reveals that the average daily circulation for all 770 newspapers reporting was 45,414,979, down from 46,606,337 over the same period a year ago. On Sunday, the average circulation for the 610 newspapers reporting for comparable periods was 48,504,484, a decrease of 3.1 percent from a year ago.
more...
Why read propoganda trash???

[KyuzoGator]

9. And the blogosphere keeps growing.

The mainstream media will be irrelevant by the end of this decade.

[noel adamson]

18. I think that the fascists will nip THAT in the bud toot sweet!

I doubt many liberals own the equipment that makes up the internet <i>now</i> and serious attempts are being made by such entities as AT&T to take much greater control of content for their own profit and attempts to censor content have been held at bay only by major campaigns to do so. The NSA etc is currently data mining as much of your info as they can from it...possibly the only reason that the fascists haven't <i>already</i> banned free speech over "the internets" as Gee Dub puts it. I mentioned elsewhere on DU that the Secret Service already came to my door with a stack of papers that contained a printout of my entire web site at http://www.TreasonInc.com It is a relatively benign site, especially compared to many that have appeared since I put this one up a few years ago, though contains a page advocating a court martial for Mr. Bush for incompetence and abuse of his power as Commander In Chief of our military.

Please pray that I'm wrong!

Liberal newspapers would take off in the vacuum left by the demise of free speech on the internet and I suspect that some of the fall in newspaper readership must be due to the internet with it's access to newspapers all over the planet. Not only is there more freedom of speech in a large number of these other locations on the earth but you can see how closely our media resembles the Pravda of a Russia, led by former KGB chief Putin, that has not changed that much since the fall of the Soviets; http://english.pravda.ru/ ...

[Berserker]

10. Great news to me

Long live the internet and P2P.

[daleo]

11. Someone should try printing a "liberal" newspaper

It would certainly fill a market niche these days. I mean something other than a free weekly, much as I appreciate them.

[JeffR]

12. I faintly remember when there were at least two

The New York Times and the Washington Post. These days brave editorial content, at least, is the province of the Madison Capital-Times.

[IndyJones]

21. LA Times is liberal.

[EFerrari]

24. LA Times has been taken over by RWers. In fact, SoCal

progressives started boycotting it when Robert Scheer was let go.

[lolly]

27. RE: LA Times is liberal

Stop it! You're killing me here!

Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg are in charge at the LAT.

Chiat, the primary "liberal" left allowed to publish in the LAT, just posted a column the other day urging voters to ignore those mean, nasty. angry left-wingers and vote for people like Lieberman so that the mean, nasty left-wingers didn't take over the party.

[Newsjock]

13. Staff ready and willing

Believe me, as long as an owner paid respectable wages to the staff, there would be no shortage of qualified print journalists and editors who would be extremely willing to staff such an operation.

But in today's Bushco economy, we can't work for free (or next to free), no matter how strong our convictions. It's why I'm still in this infernal industry.

[0007]

14. Guess we're saving the trees, 'eh?

[argyl]

15. I'd always subscribed to the local paper,even the Dallas Morning

News after the Dallas Times Herald folded.When they took the editorial stance that the SCOTUS decision on 12/12/2000 was correct and best for the country I cancelled my subscription the same day.

Since then I've sent them a number of letters,some of which have been printed,but that's all they'll see of me.They'll never get another dime from me.

This is where I get my news, on DU and other like minded sites.

[Placebo]

16. Why buy a newspaper when...

You can get more diverse, more accurate, more specific, and more up to date news for free on the internet?

[Kiouni]

17. I hate re-reading

old news, so why get a paper? it's at least 24 hours old.

[CornField]

19. Big news? *sheesh*

I need to go dig up the actual NAA study. I'll place my money on smaller newspapers doing better while larger newspapers continue a downward slide.

[cliss]

20. Well, I got some use out of the

Wall Street Journal. I got tired of waiting for these misguided cretins to see the light.

So I did what any sane person would do. I took 2 nice sections, and put them in the kitty litter box. I opened up the Editorial section, and sprinkled just a little kitty litter on it.

I waited. Sure enough, the kitten jumped in, took a big dump, right on the editorial which said "We're winning in Iraq". I wiped my hands and said "Mission Accomplished".

[IndyJones]

22. Why buy a paper when the most current info is at your fingertips?

[Roon]

26. No doubt

The guy at the grocery store is always trying to sign me up for a subscription to the local paper, he is selling telegraph machines when everyone has a phone.

[shrike]

25. I like sitting down with the newspaper

More fun sitting and reading it cover to cover than sitting at a PC. BUT I get better, more accurate and more provocative news on-line.

I've also read that TV news viewership is declining. Serves 'em right. I can't remember the last time I watched a news broadcast.