E&P Report: Gains in Circulation List

By E&P Staff
Not all papers bled circulation this winter. The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported the top dozen gainers -- dailies with 50,000 or more in paid circulation -- and three big metros make the list.

The San Jose Mercury News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer,and the Cincinnati Enquirer all reported nice increases in daily circulation.

El Diario La Prensa topped the list advancing its daily circulation 7.6% to 53,856 copies.

Below is a list of the top 12 daily (Monday-Friday) gainers for the six months ending March 2008 provided by ABC. These are the preliminary figures as filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and are subject to audit.

Top Circulation Gainers
Newspapers with More Than 50,000 Paid Circulation

Listed are the name of the newspaper, the circulation on March 31, 2008, circulation on the same date in 2007 and percentage gain.

EL DIARIO LA PRENSA: 53,856 -- 50,047 -- 7.61%
THE TIMES, MUNSTER, IND.: 85,195 -- 82,709 -- 3.01%
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER: 212,369 -- 206,320 -- 2.93%
TRENTON (N.J.) TIMES: 54,745 -- 53,197 -- 2.91%
THE DAILY HERALD, EVERETT, WASH.: 50,272 -- 49,109 -- 2.37%
VENTURA (CALIF.) COUNTY STAR : 86,276 -- 84,785 -- 1.76%
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS: 234,772 -- 230,870 -- 1.69%
GREENSBURG (PA.) TRIBUNE-REVIEW: 150,911 -- 148,416 -- 1.68%
THE ADVOCATE, BATON ROUGE, LA. : 97,912 -- 96,558 -- 1.40%
THE STANDARD-EXAMINER, OGDEN, UTAH: 61,696 -- 60,956 -- 1.21%
MOBILE (ALA.) PRESS-REGISTER: 99,433 -- 98,245 -- 1.21%
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: 129,563 -- 128,016 -- 1.21%