Charting 4-Year Circ Plunge at Major Papers

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NEW YORK In just four years, the top newspapers in the U.S. have collectively lost about 1.4 million copies in daily circulation, Editor & Publisher has found.

While the industry has lost about 10 percent of circulation overall in the past four years among the leading papers, some have bled much more than others during the same period, according to an E&P analysis of data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

The San Francisco Chronicle‘s daily circulation dropped almost 30 percent, or 150,000 copies, over the past four years, while The Los Angles Times lost 20 percent of daily circulation or more than 200,000 copies over the past four years.

The Boston Globe plunged about 20 percent (down nearly 90,000 copies) and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution almost 17 percent (-64,000).

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