Thursday, May 28, 2026

NY Daily News Trumps NY Post in Circulation: New Data

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Which New York tabloid has the biggest circulation? According to new figures just released, it’s the Daily News over the Post by a mile. The Daily News posted daily circulation of 605,677 over the Post’s 512,067 according to the Audit Bureau. The Post likes to carp about numbers in their biz section. But in the end, the News is obviously preferred. Of course the New York Times has 1,150,689 copies a day, so it’s technically king in New York. The Times is third on the overall list, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The New York Times is still the king on Sundays with 1, 646,000 copies. The Sunday Daily News had 667. 638. But the NY Post really trails on Sunday– with just 380,000 copies. Surprisingly, it’s Number 20 nationally on Sundays–far below newspapers in other cities. Even the Page Six magazine insert hasn’t helped.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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