The newspapers circulation falls down in the United States

The financial and economic crisis has not been able to excuse to the journalism in the United States. For example, it was known that the circulation of the newspapers in this country has fallen down violently in the last months, if the current numbers are compared with those of the same period of the year 2008, according to numbers handled by the Office of Audit of Circulations of the USA.

It is already not a news that there are different the mass media that have decided to close his doors or have been forced to put the cartel “it sells” through the fault of the durísima global crisis that affects the props of the economies of the countries of the world, even that of the USA.

As it will be remembered, some days ago this finance blog was alluding to one of so many victims of the crisis, the prestigious magazine BusinessWeek, who happened to be a part of the empire of Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest men of the world. This is alone a sample of the damage that has caused the recession in the field of the journalism in the United States.

In the last hours, encouraging information has left to the light for nothing and that demonstrate moreover the bad moment through that the press means live in this country. The circulation of the North American newspapers fell down 10,6 % owed largely to the negative incidence of the financial crisis, although it is not possible to allow mentioning that other one of the causes is the big heyday of the digital newspapers in the USA.

If there are analyzed the numbers of daily circulation of more than 370 American newspapers between April and September, 2009, and they are compared with those of the same period of 2008, are undoubted that this fall of more than 10 % has been very intensive, he reported the web site Chron.com, that there was done echo of informations of the news agency AP, which added these numbers they were spread by the Office of Audit of Circulations (ABC).

It is important to mention that the newspaper The Wall Street Journal is, for the time being, the one that more it sells in the United States, according to the ABC.

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