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March 29, 2024

Rocky Shutdown, by the Numbers

So the Rocky's final daily circ will come in at 210,000, more or less.

That would make it the biggest paper shutdown since the columnist-rich Chicago Daily News, which folded in 1978 with a circulation of about 327,000. The last big shutdown metro that came to my mind was the Dallas Times Herald. Out-maneuvered by Belo and shuttered in 1991, it had about 201,000 when it died.

[Friday addition: The Houston Post, bought by the Hearst-owned Houston Chronicle and closed in 1995, had a daily circ of 287,215. So that it would make it, rather than the Daily News, the last, big paper shut down. Thanks to an alert reader.]

By comparison, as the P.I. waits on the door of death, consider that its circ is down to 127,000.

Oh, and the Chronicle: 370,000 daily and 424,000 Sunday. Ten years ago, daily circulation was 482,000.


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