Behold, the Top 25 Daily Circ Gainers

Jen: We’ve been bringing you print circulation numbers all morning for the six-months ending September 2008 – stay tuned for Audience-FAX numbers too. It’s another down period for newspapers overall – daily is down 4.6% for the reporting papers to ABC and Sunday was down 4.8%. However we want to applaud the papers that made gains. Here are the top 25 papers that showed daily circ (M-F) increases according to ABC.

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL -- 97,012 -- 10.61%
MACOMB DAILY (MICH.) -- 46,014 -- 9.40%
THE VILLAGES DAILY SUN (FLA.) -- 30,616 -- 6.98%
TRENTON TIMES (N.J.) -- 53,303 -- 5.34%
MORRISTOWN CITIZEN TRIBUNE (TENN.)* -- 18,589 -- 5.31%

FARGO FORUM (N.D.) -- 49,834 -- 4.70%
OKLAHOMA CITY JOURNAL RECORD -- 3,470 -- 4.20%
BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS (KY.) -- 20,804 -- 4.01%
MAUI NEWS (HAWAII) -- 20,887 -- 3.99%
SANTE FE NEW MEXICAN -- 25,616 -- 3.70%

IRON MOUNTAIN DAILY NEWS* (MICH.) -- 9,303 -- 3.69%
ELKINS INTER-MOUNTAIN* (W.VA.) -- 10,583 -- 3.67%
CHAMPAIGN NEWS-GAZETTE* (ILL.) -- 41,578 -- 3.21%
DESERET MORNING NEWS (UTAH) -- 71,133 -- 2.09%
SANTA MARIA TIMES (CALIF.) -- 18,823 -- 2.08%

WOODLAND DAILY DEMOCRAT* (CALIF.) -- 8,738 -- 2.06%
ERIE TIMES-NEWS (PA.) -- 56,124 -- 1.81%
BEND BULLETIN (ORE.) -- 32,951 -- 1.79%
PARK HILLS DAILY JOURNAL* (MO.) -- 8,023 -- 1.79%
QUAD-CITY TIMES (IOWA) -- 50,820 -- 1.66%

CRYSTAL LAKE NORTHWEST HERALD (ILL.) -- 37,516 -- 1.58%
BEAVER COUNTY TIMES (PA.) -- 39,417 -- 1.55%
ARIZONA DAILY SUN -- 11,292 -- 1.54%
SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN -- 26,256 -- 1.50%
BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE (LA.) -- 92,030 -- 1.35%

*Evening frequency