May 3, 2011

It was quick to tout that this morning. The Journal is followed by USA Today and the New York Times, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations FAS-FAX Report. The New York Times is the Sunday circulation leader ( 1,339,462). The Los Angeles Times (948,889) and Washington Post (852,861) follow. (Poynter’s Rick Edmonds writes about the complex new set of rules for measuring circulation.) || More circulation figures are after the jump.


TOP 25 DAILY NEWSPAPERS (with total average circulation)

1. Wall Street Journal; 2,117,796
2. USA Today; 1,829,099
3. New York Times; 916,911
4. Los Angeles Times; 605,243
5. San Jose Mercury News; 577,665
6. Washington Post; 550,821
7. New York Daily News; 530,924
8. New York Post; 522,874
9. Chicago Tribune; 437,205
10. Chicago Sun-Times; 419,409
11. Dallas Morning News; 404,951
12. Houston Chronicle; 364,724
13. Philadephia Inquirer; 343,710
14. Arizona Republic; 337,170
15. Denver Post; 324,970
16. Newsday; 298,759
17. Star Tribune; 296,605
18. St. Petersburg Times; 292,441
19. Oregonian; 260,248
20. Cleveland Plain Dealer; 254,372
21. Seattle Times; 253,742
22. Detroit Free Press; 246,169
23. San Francisco Chronicle; 235,350
24. Newark Star Ledger; 229,255
25. Boston Globe; 219,214

TOP 25 U.S. SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS (with total average circulation)

1. New York Times; 1,339,462
2. Los Angeles Times; 948,889
3. Washington Post; 852,861
4. Chicago Tribune; 780,601
5. San Jose Mercury News; 636,999
6. Detroit Free Press; 614,226
7. Houston Chronicle; 587,984
8. New York Daily News; 584,658
9. Denver Post; 519,838
10. Star Tribune; 516,134
11. Arizona Republic; 511,764
12. Philadelphia Inquirer; 488,287
13. St. Petersburg Times; 429,048
14. Chicago Sun-Times; 421,453
15. Cleveland Plain Dealer; 403,001
16. Atlanta Journal-Constitution; 391,815
17. Dallas Morning News; 375,100
18. Newsday; 362,221
19. St. Louis Post-Dispatch; 360,450;
20. Boston Globe; 356,652
21. New York Post; 355,784
22. Seattle Times; 346,991
23. Baltimore Sun; 343,552
24. Newark Star-Ledger; 337,416;
25. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 333,999

More on the figures from paidContent.org

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