In 2020, the year afflicted with the coronavirus pandemic, the print-only circulation of newspapers in the United States declined by 19 percent, However, at the same time, it was estimated that digital circulation grew by 27 percent that year.
Growth of newspaper circulation in the United States in 2020, by format
*The data does not include the full reporting on digital circulation of The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post; therefore the figures provided are estimates.
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Medium (Pew Research Center). (June 29, 2021). Growth of newspaper circulation in the United States in 2020, by format [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/322916/newspaper-circulation-growth-print-digital/
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