Circulation plummets across the Atlantic

There was more evidence of the decline of newspapers across the Atlantic yesterday.

The Audit bureau released six month figures which editor and publisher says

for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, compared with the same March period in 2008. On Sunday, for 557 newspapers, circulation was down 5.3% to 42,082,707.

For the top 25 newspapers in the United States,all saw falling circulations apart from the WSJ.the declines ranged from 20.6 percent for The New York Post, to a slight 0.4 percent drop for The Chicago Sun-Times.

Overall,circulation was down 7 per cent.