Tuesday, October 31, 2006
IRIS Blog has a look at those falling newspaper circulation numbers (see here and here) and notes an interesting trend. "Conservative" leaning papers have actually seen an increase in their circulation over the past four years -- something not noted or glossed over in the two linked articles: Exclusive: Conservative Newspaper Circulations Surged As Liberals Tanked
...I did the research after noticing an anomaly in the data: the conservative New York Post was the only major paper to record any significant rise in circulation this year, and it was quite large. I then looked at the trend over a number of years and detected an extraordinary trend: every newspaper consistently lost subscribers, except for four which experienced solid growth. Three of those four are the nation's only conservative dailies, while the fourth is arguably the least partisan paper, USA
Today.
While the trend is consistent across all newspapers, I will list below the data for the largest papers, which have the most statistically significant time range (2002-2006)...
While the trend is consistent across all newspapers, I will list below the data for the largest papers, which have the most statistically significant time range (2002-2006)...
I'm happy to report that Solomonia readership has seen a slow but steady increase over the past three years.
Locally, the Heraldhas lost even more readers than the Globe.