
Newspaper circulation figures continued to fall across the board in March with the exception of the Evening Standard where distribution stayed steady on last year.
The latest ABC figures show Reach-owned titles the Sunday People, Star on Sunday and Daily Star continued to record the biggest year-on-year declines.
Free title the Metro posted the smallest year-on-year drop of 3 per cent, followed by the Sunday Times which had a 4 per cent drop in circulation.
National newsbrand circulations for March (source ABC):
Publication | Total circulation March 2019 | Year-on-year % change | Bulks |
Metro FREE | 1,427,127 | -3% | |
The Sun | 1,358,945 | -8% | 104,378 |
Daily Mail | 1,186,689 | -9% | |
The Sun on Sunday | 1,136,412 | -7% | 103,780 |
The Mail on Sunday | 1,006,177 | -6% | |
London Evening Standard | 874,314 | 0% | |
The Sunday Times | 711,872 | -4% | 77,275 |
Daily Mirror | 497,699 | -12% | |
Sunday Mirror | 407,690 | -14% | |
The Times | 405,013 | -7% | 76,773 |
The Daily Telegraph | 342,596 | -10% | |
Daily Star | 326,360 | -17% | |
Daily Express | 314,516 | -12% | |
Sunday Express | 271,117 | -12% | |
The Sunday Telegraph | 268,238 | -9% | |
i | 231,256 | -9% | 50,466 |
Daily Star – Sunday | 194,007 | -18% | |
Financial Times | 174,224 | -6% | 30,650 |
The Observer | 163,814 | -7% | |
Sunday People | 153,073 | -18% | |
The Guardian | 134,443 | -9% | |
Sunday Mail | 119,255 | -13% | |
Daily Record | 117,416 | -11% | |
Sunday Post | 103,383 | -14% | 538 |
City AM FREE | 86,073 | -5% |
Picture: Reuters/Peter Nicholls
Lol at this utterly misinformed comment. Where to even begin?
The public is now more informed than ever before because of the internet. The old information gatekeepers are now becoming irrelevant. The truth is they NEVER held power to account. They merely gave the illusion of doing so. They were always in the pocket of the establishment.
And that last sentence about democracy being undermined? Just lol at such a stupid statement. I see that cliché endlessly trotted out these days. There isn’t a shred of truth to it. In fact, literally the opposite is true. Democracy is now stronger than ever because those gatekeepers are being exposed as the fake news merchants they’ve always been.
Indie journalism is flourishing. The inevitable death of the entire legacy media is a wonderful thing for anybody who isn’t a corrupt parasitical traitor. All these rags are going away and what a wonderful sight it is to behold.
Yeah, it’s not like the internet had any impact at all.