Dramatic news events including the Queensland floods, the Christchuch earthquake and the Japanese tsunami helped Australia’s newspapers slow their circulation slides in the first three months of the year.
Only one title – the Saturday edition of Fairfax Media’s Australian Financial Review – suffered a double digit percentage drop in the latest set of figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. It was down by nearly 15,000 to 78,312 sales in the first three months of the year.
In Monday to Friday sales, Brisbane’s Courier Mail saw the biggest falls, down just over 6%.
Among the Sunday papers, News Ltd’s WA paper The Sunday Times saw the biggest drop, down nearly 8%.
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Although the drops in newspaper sales were last dramatic than in recent months, few saw gains. The best performer, The Sunday Age, was only up 1%
