Newspaper Circulation Jan June

IRE60

Jan/June ('10 and '09) Circulation figs for all the papers, makes for interesting reading. Sun Trib up to 20% bulks now!!!

Ed: I must have left the brain in neutral! Figures now attached!!

sundaypapers

Wouldn't like to be working at the London Independent! That'll be offloaded.

Sunday Tribune and Sunday Business Post going down too.

liammur

Unfortunately we seem to be a nation of tabloid people.

Can there be any country in the world with more tabloids per head of population than ireland?

sataction

We are following the trend in most of Europe and the USA of falling sales. They are full of bad news and are depressing.
I bought the Business Post a couple of sundays ago and was suicidal after reading it.
Now I stick to the Racing Post.

liammur

Any good tips?

JTMan

How much longer can the Sunday Tribune keep going?

liammur

Yes, and it would be a loss.
The Independent have being subsiding it for quite some time.

kpbdublin

Gloomy figures for the industry. The ITimes, SBP and Trib are particularly bad. There is little evidence that going downmarket boosts circulation. The Tribune's peak of circulation was back in the eighties. As it has gone downmarket and moved into the middle market, its decline has accelerated. Moving closer to the mail may make matters even worse. The real gap in the market on Sunday is for a Sunday equivalent of the Irish Times. In the eighties the Tribune filled that role to a certain extent although it was a bit edgier than the IT.

jdivision

A lot of people I know have bought The Sunday Times thinking it's The Irish Times on Sunday, it's only when you tell them that they realise

constitutionus

how could they not know ?

the sunday times actually reports real news !

coletti

The quality of analysis and journalism in most of the papers is pretty poor.

For example, today the Irish Times has "Clerical sex abuse scandal 'not invention of media' " on it's front page, as if that was news to anyone. it turns out to be a story that Cardinal Brady has said it is "“not an invention of the media” and the Irish Times thinks this is sufficiently newsworthy to put it on it's front page. You can practically see the press release from the RC church.

So much so called journalism nowadays is just rehashing of press releases, and many papers now run the same stories, almost word for word, as you can see them parroting a press release they have all received. With such poor quality journalism, and editorial direction, it's no wonder less and less of us are buying newspapers.

Add that to free newspapers available on the internet, and rapidly declining advertising revenue, and the newspaper model as we know it is unlikely to be around for very much longer.

uvox

"So much so called journalism nowadays is just rehashing of press releases,"

Indeed, with the serial offender Vincent Browne in the lead, recycing the same old bollocks through a basically similar article in the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, TV3. The same article from some quango about poverty and mortality rates I've read dozens of times by now.

Shazanne

You are quite likely to read anything in the newspapers in August, which is traditionally the "silly season", when journalists try to make a story out of what little is happening.
I am interested in your views on the national papers, and the Sunday papers in particular, but what are the views on the provincial papers and the future for them?

coletti

Shazanne wrote: »

You are quite likely to read anything in the newspapers in August, which is traditionally the "silly season", when journalists try to make a story out of what little is happening.

I hope that's some comfort to newspapers when they are bankrupted!

coletti

I see today more newspapers are closing. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0831/breaking62.html

Slowly, and surely, it's happening.

Shazanne

Are you in the newspaper business Colletti?