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I wonder how long it will be before more newspapers close down given their massive decline in sales.

Rupert | 16.12.19 - 7:16 a.m. | #

It would be interesting to add the Scottish national newspapers. I have read on and off that the broadsheets (The Herald, The Scotsman) have astoundingly low sales now (fewer than 20,000 copies per day).

Some local newspapers are below 1,000 a week.

Alastair Scott | 16.12.19 - 7:51 a.m. | #

Daily Record: 106,000  (↓ 60% since 2009)
The Herald: 20,000  (↓ 64%)
The Scotsman: 15,000  (↓ 67%)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.12.19 - 8:22 a.m. | #

The increase for the Mail, Times and F-Times between 1989 and 1999 is interesting, then the decline (except for Star) between 1999 and 2009 followed by the plummet for all except the i/Independent between 2009 and 2019.

I wonder how many will survive until 2029?, established things on TV like the late evening/morning newspaper reviews seem increasingly irrelevant, I don't think our road has any morning newspaper deliveries anymore - in contrast there is a stream of supermarket deliveries and 'take-away' food.

Still Anon | 16.12.19 - 8:45 a.m. | #

I don't understand the i/Independent % figure.....surely it's gone down over the period even if up from its low in the middle?

dg writes: All changes are "2009-2019".

NiC | Homepage | 16.12.19 - 11:49 a.m. | #

There was a massive circulation war in the 1990s, with The Times having a long period of "frozen" prices (even down to showing the price frozen in an glacier) that were artificially subsidised and I seem to recall some of the papers did make a concerted effort to break out of the usue divisions to attract traditional readers of other types. Clearly The Times and the Daily Mail benefited the most. Either the Financial Times got in on the act or it attracted readers put off by all this.

Ironically for a war initiated by Murdoch the main casualty was his own Today.

Tim Roll-Pickering | Homepage | 19.12.19 - 10:12 a.m. | #











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