The doomsayers were right. Virtually every major newspaper in the US has lost circulation this year, bar one — Rupert Murdoch’s New York
Post.

While most newspaper sales are down, the daily sales of the Post were up over five per cent, making it now the fifth largest newspaper in the US.

The Post's daily sale – according to official figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations — topped 704,000 in the six months to the end of September, putting it ahead of the rival Daily News, and even ahead of The Washington Post.