Readers and Viewers

The average weekday U.S. newspaper circulation has taken another hit, falling 2.6 percent in the past six-month period, signaling continued pressure from the Internet, according to an industry group. The falling numbers marked a 14-year low compared to any other six-month period since 1991, according to an analysis of the data by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). Sunday circulation also...

The average weekday circulation of newspapers in the United States (US) has fallen by 2.6 per cent in six months ending September, according to a report released on Monday. An analysis by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has found that for the six-month period ending September 30, 2005, the average daily circulation for all 789 newspapers reporting for comparable periods was 45,153,192...

Media people have debated for decades the relevance and fate of the newsweeklies, even as they hung on as other mass-market titles stumbled and died. Somehow Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report kept vital against the explosion of competing media. The question is, how much longer can they remain vital? The answer is, not much. That's the outcome of a recent Media Life poll of media planners...

NEW YORK: New research from the Audit Bureau of Circulations and Newspaper Services of America calls into question the effectiveness of a national reader per copy number (RPC) -- a figure supplied by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The report, which was presented last week at the Worldwide Readership Research Symposium in Prague, suggests that some newspaper salespeople (if not...

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman...

ONE OF THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY'S newest and most intriguing strategies for stemming the erosion of readers--the distribution of free metropolitan dailies--apparently isn't having much, if any, impact. That's the conclusion of a comprehensive study of free daily launches in four major U.S. markets that is being presented at a major industry readership symposium today. The paper, a collaboration of...

Earnings fell by half at the New York Times Co. (NYT:NYSE - news - research - Cramer's Take) in the third quarter, held back by surging paper prices and tepid ad growth. The company turned a profit of $23.1 million, or 16 cents a share, in the quarter, compared with $48.3 million, or 33 cents a share, a year ago. The latest period included a layoffs charge of 5 cents a share and options-expensing...

Cutbacks in editorial departments, lowered expectations for earnings growth, and continued rises in newsprint prices would be the developments to watch out for in the newspaper industry worldwide during the coming year, a new report has indicated. Some of the predictions made by the INMA report have already started bothering the newspaper industry. Newsprint price in the United States has already...

One survey vindicates another ? Hindi language dailies continue to dominate the Indian newspaper market. And English dailies barely figure in the elite top tens. Dainik Jagran, with a readership base of 1,91,74,000, is the most read newspaper in the country. Dainik Bhaskar comes second with with 1,50,92,000. These are the findings just released by the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) Round II, and...

Was there ever an industry that took such a morbid relish in predicting its own demise as the newspaper business? Newspaper people are chronically, maybe even genetically, committed to brooding about the day -- and it's usually soon -- their institutions will be gone. Predictions of our demise come in two forms, the general and the specific. Of the former, Eric Black writes in the Minneapolis Star...