TIMES SCALES BACK ITS CIRCULATION FIGURES.Byline: Daily News The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). reported Thursday that it has revised downward its official average circulation figures by nearly 42,000 papers per day, dropping the newspaper back to fourth place nationally, again trailing The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The restatement Restatement A revision in a company's earlier financial statements. Notes: The need for restating financial figures can result from fraud, misrepresentation, or a simple clerical error. comes just two weeks after the figures were announced, and after The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported that the Times led the nation's top papers for circulation increases, surpassing The New York Times in total circulation. But with the change, the newspaper fell to fourth behind USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The restated circulation numbers were contained in a Times story Thursday that focused primarily on the Daily News and its financial arrangements with the Times' parent, Times Mirror Co., which is being purchased by the Tribune tribune, in ancient Rome, one of various officers. The history of the office of tribune is closely associated with the struggle of the plebs against the patrician class to achieve a more equitable position in the state. From c.508 B.C. Co. of Chicago. The revision in Times circulation was announced by John Puerner, a Tribune executive who was named publisher of the Times last month. When the figures were first released, the Times had been labeled as having recorded the largest percentage gain among the nation's biggest dailies with a 5 percent hike. But Puerner said daily circulation actually was 1,111,785 papers, nearly 42,000, or 3.6 percent, below the figure listed in the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Audit Bureau of Circulations is one of the several organizations of the same name operating in different parts of the world. It audits circulation, readership, and audience information for the magazines, newspapers, and other publications produced by report for the six months ended March 31. The revision cuts the circulation growth to 1.2 percent from the same period the previous year rather than 5 percent. The Times said the restatement resulted from changing the way it accounts for ``bonus days,'' in which sample weekday newspapers are distributed to Sunday subscribers, and for papers distributed in a joint marketing program with the Spanish-language daily La Opinion. Newspapers are allowed to count bonus days in their circulation figures, but must disclose it if they count more than eight within a six-month period, said Mary Metzger, a spokeswoman for the Audit Bureau of Circulations in Schaumburg, Ill. Sunday circulation was revised down to 1,384,688 or 4,039 papers fewer than stated last month. That figure is down 1,099 papers from the same period a year earlier. The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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