Latest Welsh newspaper sales figures

This makes gloomy reading, but some newspapers are still fighting the good fight!
Here are the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation sales figures for newspapers in Wales.
Regional dailies (figures are daily average sales) are ranked in order of the percentage decrease between June 2010 and June 2011.
South Wales Argus 23,332 (-5.5pc)
South Wales Evening Post 40,149 (-5.8pc)
South Wales Echo 32,754 (-7.4pc)
The Western Mail 26,931 (-8.9pc).
Average circulation figures for weekly titles across Wales for the period December 2010 to June 2011 together with their percentage increase or decrease compared to the same period the previous year (list is alphabetical) –
Barry & District News 5,400 -8.6pc
Caernarfon & Denbigh Herald 11,194 -6.8pc
Campaign Caerphilly, Ystrad Mynach & Bargoed 27,824 -8pc
Cardigan & Tivy-Side Advertiser 6,724 -5.1pc
Carmarthen Journal 16,904 -8.1pc
County Times and Express 15,205 -3.5pc
Cynon Valley Leader 6,589 -11pc
Denbighshire Free Press 6,627 -1.7pc
Echo Extra 50,523 -1.9pc
The Flintshire Standard 22,634 -0.3pc
Free Press – Monmouth 6,279 -5.5pc
Glamorgan Gazette 15,197 -10.9pc
Gwent Gazette 6,157 -13.5pc
Llanelli Star 13,085 -6.7pc
Merthyr Express 11,924 -11pc
Milford & West Wales Mercury 3,645 -1.1pc
North Wales Chronicle 30,350 -0.9pc
North Wales Pioneer 25,296 0.2pc
North Wales Weekly News 13,246 -7.4pc
Penarth Times 5,080 -6.6pc
Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer 6,962 -11.1pc
Rhondda Leader 8,298 -10.9pc
The Rhyl, Prestatyn & Abergele Journal 28,902 0.1pc
South Wales Guardian 6,109 -8.9pc
Wales on Sunday 27,227 -13.1pc
Weekly Argus 19,181 -6.2pc
Western Telegraph 20,269 -6.3pc
Wrexham Leader 33,168 -0.4pc

Comments

Unknown said…
Is this due to the fact that the new generation that is replacing the old is increasingly illiterate? Or could it be that these papers are rubbish - the Western Mail has certainly abandoned any pretence to good journalism.
13 September 2011 at 17:15
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