10.26.2009 10:57 pm

WSJ is rare exception as newspapers report falling circulations

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Wall Street Journal has overtaken USA Today as the largest circulation daily newspaper in the country, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.

The Wall Street Journal may have celebrated — but for most newspapers the report was dismal.

The…

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04.17.2009 11:08 am

Survey of newsrooms finds that 5,900 lost jobs last year

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“American daily newspapers shed 5,900 newsroom jobs last year, reducing their employment of journalists by 11.3 percent to the levels of the early 1980s,” the American Society of News Editors reports in its annual survey of newsrooms.

ASNE reports that the percentage…

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WSJ is rare exception as newspapers report falling circulations

Survey of newsrooms finds that 5,900 lost jobs last year

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