Despite losses, community newspapers still dominate the U.S. market

Abstract

Closures and mergers resulted in a net loss of more than 1,800 newspapers from 2004 to 2015, the overwhelming majority of them weeklies. But community weeklies remain the most common (70 percent of all newspapers), and community dailies and weeklies account for 62 percent of overall print circulation. Less than 2 percent of newspapers are “metro dailies,” which account for less than 30 percent of overall print circulation.