CHART V

FEWER THAN ONE IN TEN U.S. DAILY PAPER CITIES STILL HAVE COMPETITION (1945)

8.4%

TOTAL CITIES-1,394
TOTAL COMPETITION-8.4%

SOURCE: BASED ON DATA IN EDITOR & PUBLISHER

INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOKS AS SUMMARIZED BY
R.B.NIXON, JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, JUNE 1945,
P. 100

CHART VI

LOCAL WEEKLY COMPETITION HAS GONE FROM 77% OF THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TOWNS (1945)

SOURCE: Based on data in Editor & Publisher International

Yearbooks as summarized by R. B. Nixon,
Journalism Quarterly, June 1945, p.99 .

1,944 Dailies in 1929
- 576 Deaths by 1944
1,368 Survivors (1944)

+ 376 New Ventures
=1,744 Dailies in 1944

NET LOSS OF PAPERS IN 15 YEARS - 200 (-10.2%)

NET GAIN IN CIRCULATION IN 15 YEARS - 6,529,223 (+16.8%)

SOURCE: Based on Nixon, Journalism Quarterly, June, 1945. - p. 99

CHART IX

SIX OUT OF TEN READERS CAN CHOOSE AMONG COMPETING LOCAL PAPERS

1945

TOTAL CIRCULATION
CIRCULATION OF

45,975,554

COMPETITIVE PAPERS --27,422,248 (59.8%)

SOURCE: BASED ON DATA IN EDITOR & PUBLISHER INTERNATIONAL

YEAR BOOKS AS SUMMARIZED BY R. B. NIXON,

JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, JUNE 1945, P.108