The Philadelphia Inquirer’s circulation fell to 342,361 weekday and 477,586 Sunday according to the report released Oct. 25 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The report covers the months from April through September and compares circulation to the same period of 2009.
It remains the 11th largest paper in the nation behind the Houston Chronicle which has a circulation of 343,952.
The Inquirer’s circulation rose to 356,189 from 288,298 in the ABC’s spring report after the circulation of the Philadelphia Daily News, its Philadelphia Newspaper LLC stablemate, was included with it.
The only newspaper in the top 25 to gain circulation this period was Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal which rose 1.8 percent to 2,061,142 to remain the largest newspaper in the nation.
Murdoch also owns Fox News Channel which is the nation’s most watched cable news station.