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Daily News, LANG papers say circulation is up

Mark had the latest circulation drop at the Los Angeles Times (and some spin from Publisher Eddy Hartenstein) this morning at LA Biz Observed. Now the Daily News has posted a story saying its circ edged up both Sunday (3.9%) and daily (0.14%.) That does buck the industry trend, as they say in the story, but the overall numbers are nothing to cheer about. The Daily News' Sunday circulation sits at 97,000; the daily average is 89,093. I'm guessing those are like 1960s numbers for the DN's predecessor the Valley News & Green Sheet, maybe 1950s or even 40s. The story says across the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, total Sunday circulation rose about 1 percent to nearly 428,100. That's for nine newspapers in and around Los Angeles. The LAT's Sunday circulation is still over 900,000, but just barely above 600,000 on weekdays.


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