The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was at 180,000 in the late 1990s. If it didn't make the list, that means it's lost more than half.

 

As noted earlier, that's the one that got me.
What was AJC circ at its peak? 400K? 6ooK?

 

Definitely in that range, maybe even pushing 800K.

 

Yeah, I seem to recall it was at least 600K in the early '90s, but I might be off.
Besides covering every county in Georgia, the AJC was a huge regional paper for the Southeast.

And now it's limping along at 92K. That's why it feels to me like this will be an especially stormy year for the big papers.

 

The numbers are numbing. Last one leaving turn out the lights.

 

One or the other, for sure!

 

I love this line. +++2

 

Not so fast. This graphic was comparing 2013 to 2015. You'd have to know what the ADG circulation rate was in 2013 to know if it had dropped in half, which is highly unlikely. I would presume it was already well below 180,000 by the year 2013.

 

When the Rocky closed the combined circulation of the News and the Denver Post was 409,000. Now the circulation is 150,000 so the Post has lost almost two/thirds of the circulation during a period when the population of the metro area has increased about 10%.

 

He meant lost more than half from its peak.

 

The headline is inaccurate. I thought the sky fell on print newspapers years ago.

 

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