"Another Nail in the Coffin"

Just in case you haven't seen the latest bad news about newspaper circulation:

USA Today -- 2,293,310 +0.01%

The Wall Street Journal -- 2,011,999 +0.01%

The New York Times -- 1,000,665 -3.58%

Los Angeles Times -- 739,147 -5.20%

Daily News, New York -- 632,595 -7.16%

New York Post -- 625,421 -6.25%

The Washington Post -- 622,714 -1.94%

Chicago Tribune -- 516,032 -7.75%

Houston Chronicle -- 448,271 -11.66%

Newsday -- 377,517 -2.58%

The Arizona Republic -- 361,333 -5.51%

San Francisco Chronicle -- 339,430 -7.07%

The Dallas Morning News -- 338,933 -9.28%

Boston Globe -- 323,983 -10.18%

Minneapolis Star Tribune -- 322,360 -4.26%

Newark Star-Ledger -- 316,280 -10.40%

Chicago Sun-Times -- 313,176 -3.94%

Cleveland Plain Dealer -- 305,529 -8.58%

Philadelphia Inquirer -- 300,674 -11.06%

Detroit Free Press -- 298,243 - 6.84%

The Oregonian -- 283,321 -8.45%

Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 274,999 -13.62%

San Diego Union-Tribune -- 269,819 -3.00%

St. Petersburg Times -- 268,935 -6.88%

Sacramento Bee -- 253,249 -4.22%

Industry totals, courtesy of Editor & Publisher: down nearly 5 percent, April-September. Good comments here from analyst Lauren Rich Fine (who's the source of my headline) and here from Ken Doctor. There's not much else to be said, except to note that these numbers essentially predate the stock market crash and economic downturn. The next set of numbers is likely to be even more devastating.