American papers drop 10% in 4 years

America's newspapers have lost around 10% of circulation in the past four years.That amunts to 1.4m copies.

Editor and publisher says that the decline is not uniform across all titles,the La Times for example is down nearly 20%,the Washington post down 13% but the New York Times only 7%.

One reason suggests the article is that

Many newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe began cutting other paid circulation -- employee, hotel, newspapers in educations and especially third party sponsored copies -- hence some of the steep decreases.