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.
- Herald 20,000 (douglas says "within one year of its founding), p. 34
- New-Yorker (Greeley) 9,000
- 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 [1]; Hudson on contest p. 529 [2]
- 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.
- Tribune 18,600 daily / 41,400 weekly
- Tribune 27,360 daily / 112,800 weekly
- Dec 1860[5], 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 [6] See also [7]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
- 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:[9] "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.
Most Popular Deaths
DRAFT - LOOKING FOR MORE ENTRIES
Rank
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Article
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Date (UTC)
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Views/day
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Notes
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Ref
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1
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Steve Jobs
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6 Oct 2011
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7,354,417
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[10]
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2
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Robin Williams
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12 Aug 2014
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6,518,281
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[11]
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3
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Whitney Houston
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12 Feb 2012
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5,971,426
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[12]
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4
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Michael Jackson
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26 June 2009
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5,875,404
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[13]
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5
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Osama bin Laden
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2 May 2011
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4,800,513
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[14]
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6
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Paul Walker
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1 Dec 2013
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4,272,321
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[15]
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7
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Amy Winehouse
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23 Jul 2011
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4,231,460
|
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[16]
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8
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Ryan Dunn
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20 Jun 2011
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2,979,152
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[17]
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9
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Nelson Mandela
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20 Jun 2011
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2,657,534
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[18]
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Others for potential adding:
- 1,996,447. Heath Ledger. 23 Jan 2008. [19]. Jump started prior day (835,776)
- 1,979,712. Elizabeth Taylor. 23 Mar 2011. [20]
- 1,726,194. Patrick Swayze. 15 Sep 2009. [21]
- 1,413,601. Kim Jong-il. 19 Dec 2011. [22]
- 1,342,729. Cory Monteith 14 Jul 2013. [23]
- 1,322,937. James Gandolfini 20 June 2013. [24]
- 1,164,511. Margaret Thatcher 8 Apr 2013. [25]
- 1,163,169. Natasha Richardson. 19 March 2009. [26]. Nature of death (ski accident coma) probably added to views