{"id":265818,"date":"2017-06-01T17:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=265818"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:51:16","slug":"us-newspaper-circulation-slumps-to-lowest-since-1945-despite-some-digital-gains-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/us-newspaper-circulation-slumps-to-lowest-since-1945-despite-some-digital-gains-study\/","title":{"rendered":"US newspaper circulation slumps to \u2018lowest since 1945\u2019 despite some digital gains \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Wonderful!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though digital subscriptions are surging for the largest US newspapers, estimated industry circulation and revenue fell overall, the Pew Research Center found. Americans now read newspapers at levels not seen since 1945, but there\u2019s growth in cable news.<\/p>\n<p>Among the findings are US newspaper circulation, including print and digital, fell 8 percent in 2016 for both weekday and Sunday editions to 35 million and 38 million readers, respectively, the\u00a0study\u00a0estimates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he lowest levels since 1945,\u201d\u00a0Pew said, in its annual study on the\u00a0\u201cstate of the news media,\u201d\u00a0released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Weekday print circulation decreased 10 percent and Sunday newspaper readership fell 9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNewspapers are a critical part of the American news landscape, but they have been hard hit as more and more Americans consume news digitally,\u201d\u00a0Pew said.\u00a0\u201cThe industry\u2019s financial fortunes and subscriber base have been in decline since the early 2000s, even as website audience traffic has grown for many. Meanwhile, alt-weekly papers have also seen their circulation drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pew stated that digital circulation is more difficult to gauge, it estimated trends to be fairly flat, with weekday down 1 percent and Sunday up 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing last year\u2019s presidential election, some major US newspapers reported a sharp jump in digital subscriptions, giving a boost to their overall circulation totals,\u201d\u00a0Pew researcher Michael Barthel said in a\u00a0statement.\u00a0\u201cThe newspaper industry as a whole, however, faced ongoing challenges in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The primary reason is that\u00a0&#8220;more and more Americans consume news digitally,&#8221;\u00a0the report explained.<\/p>\n<p>Among the study\u2019s other findings are that three of the largest US daily newspapers reported a jump in digital subscriptions, with the New York Times adding more than 500,000 digital subscriptions in 2016, a 47 percent rise; the Wall Street Journal added more than 150,000 digital subscriptions, a 23 percent rise; and the Chicago Tribune added about 100,000 weekly digital circulation, a 76 percent year-on-year gain.<\/p>\n<p>In a commentary on\u00a0WGBH\u00a0in 2016, Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said the biggest obstacle for attracting readers is that customers are already paying hundreds of dollars a month for broadband, cell service and their various digital devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/390534-us-newspaper-circulation-still-slumping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/390534-us-newspaper-circulation-still-slumping\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Wonderful! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":283965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}