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Historical NYC newspaper circulation
Data can be suspect. Publishers can inflate their numbers.Margaret Fuller's New York Journalism: A Biographical Essay and Key Writings, 9 (1995). In mid 1840s the Herald and Tribune hired a neutral auditor due to disputed claims.


 * 1836.
 * Herald 20,000 (douglas says "within one year of its founding), p. 34


 * 1837. Douglas, George H. The Golden Age of the Newspaper (1999), p. 5
 * New-Yorker (Greeley) 9,000


 * 1840.
 * Herald Douglas p. 33 says Herald now clearly the circulation leader


 * November 1842 (Hudson, p. 525, estimated). Hudson reports "nine cheap cash papers" and "seven 'sixpenny sheets'"  (he also lists Saturday and Sunday papers separately)
 * Cash:
 * Herald 15,000
 * Sun 20,000
 * Aurora 5,000
 * Morning Post 3,000
 * Plebeian 2,000
 * Chronicle 5,000
 * Tribune 9,500
 * Union 2,000
 * Tattler 2,000
 * Wall-Street:
 * Courier and Enquirer 7,000
 * Journal of Commerce 7,500
 * Express 6,000
 * American 1,800
 * Commercial Advertiser 5,000
 * Evening Post 2,500
 * Standard 400


 * 1847 (Fuller, p.9 - auditor); 1868 Parton on 1847 contest ; Hudson on contest p. 529
 * Tribune, 11,455 daily, 15,700 weekly, 960 semiweekly (total 28,115)
 * Herald, 16,711 daily, 11,455 weekly, and 780 presidential edition (total 28,946). Fuller says Hudson remarked the high weekly numbers may have caused Greely to promote his national edition.


 * 1850, p. 145
 * Tribune 18,600 daily / 41,400 weekly


 * 1854, p. 145
 * Tribune 27,360 daily / 112,800 weekly


 * Dec 1860, Ch. 5, p. 56-57
 * Herald daily 77,107 (largest in world per source, 25,000 above Times of London) (Douglas, pp.56-57, 34)
 * Tribune daily 55,000 (but weekly edition of 300,000?)
 * Sun daily 60,000
 * Evening Post daily 20,000


 * 1873 See also p. 83, saying in early 1870s, "only a few papers in the country had circulations above 100,000--probably only the New York Sun, Daily News, and Herald''
 * Commercial Advertiser daily 11,200
 * Evening Mail daily 11,500
 * Evening Post daily 12,000
 * Express daily 9,200 (23 Park Row)
 * Graphic daily 10,000
 * Herald daily 88,000
 * Journal of Commerce daily 6,500
 * News, daily 100,000 (with blurb claiming Daily News is highest cir. in country)
 * New Yorker Journal daily 22,500
 * Register daily 1,440
 * Staats-Zeitung daily 50,000
 * Star daily 15,000
 * Sun daily 101,500 (cross mark?) (cf. News)
 * Telegram daily 12,000
 * Times daily 42,000
 * Tribune daily 40,000
 * Witness daily 7,000
 * World daily 20,000


 * 1892, p. 83
 * World daily 375,000


 * 1900:
 * 15 general circulation papers per 1966 article: Dougherty, Philip H. (16 August 1966) In 1900, Readers in New York Had Choice of 15 Newspapers:  12 of the 15 were covered in the merger of the Herald-Tribune, Journal-American, and World-Telegram and Sun; the other was a Daily News (1895-1905), Post (1801), and New York Times (1851).
 * Lead dailies per 1900 source: "American Newspaper Directory" (Rowell)
 * Evening Post 1895-1899 stats. 1899: 23,244
 * Evening Telegram year ending June 1900: 135,405
 * Herald: letters?
 * Journal and Advertiser (morning). letters. Evening Evening Journal.  numbers.
 * Mail and Express letters
 * Morning Telegraph letters
 * News (31 Park Row) letters
 * Press 1894: 118,609, then letters
 * Times. letters.
 * Tribune. letters.
 * Wall Street Journal. 1897: 1,812, other letters
 * World letters.

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