The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-12
STATISTICS OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

The american Ne,ospape, Directory for
1871, just issued by Messrs. George P.
Rowell & Co, proprietors of the American
Advertising Agency Of New York city,
contains certain tables of statistics, which
have been compiled with care, and can be
relied upon as substantially correct. They
cover field of research which no statisti-
clan has before touched upon, and furnish
food for reflection and wonderment. The
following are few of the many facts
which study of these tables reveal:
The whole number of periodicals issued
in the United States is 1888, with 70 to be
added for the Territories, and 1853 are
printed in the Dominion of Canada, and 30
in the British Colonies, making grand to-
tai of CABS, of which 637 are daily, lis
tri-weeldy, 129 semi-weekly, 4,642 weekly,
81 bi-weekly, 100 semi-monthly, 7l5
monthly, IA bi-monthly, and 60 are issued
quarterly. New York has the largest num-
Der of publications, 1914, of which 81 are
printed in New York city, and Nevada has
the smallest number issued in any State
only 10. Nevada has more daily than
weekly papers, and is unique in this respect,
every other State having from three to
twelve times as many weeklies as dailies.-
Tri-weekly papers are more common in the
South than semi-weeklies, while in the
Northern States the facts are reversed.
The largest number of daily papers pub
lished in any State is 80, in New York.
Pennsylvania is second, with 81. Next
comes Illinois with So, and California has
"a, being the fourth on the list. Delaware
and Florida have each l daily paper. Kan
sas has as many as Vermont, West yir-
ginia, Mississippi and Arkansas combined.
Nebraska and Nevada have each more
dailies than either Oregon, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Vermont, West Virginia,
Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Maine, or
Mississippi.
OF the 70 publications issued regularly in
the Territories 13 are daily and 80 weekly,
3 tri-weekly, semi-weekly, | appears
monthly, l semi-monthly, and bi-weellly.
The papers of New York State have the
largest circulation, averaging 7,4l1 each
issue. Massachusetts is second with 500
average then comes the District of Column
bia with 1928. Nevada has the smallest
average circulation, only SIG, while Florida
averages GIG, Arkansas, $50, Texas, 7Ol,
and Mississippi 1853. The average circula-
ton of all daily newspapers published is
2,7l7, of the wecklies |, 59s, and of the
monthles 4,0s1. The average edition of
all the papers printed is ,s42, which null
tiplied by {, 43S, the entire number of pub
LEGATIONS give II ,S5s,796 as the number of
copies in which an advertisement would
appear if inserted once in all. ji8ab
The same advertisement, if continued one
year, would be printed the enormous num-
Der of ,499, 1922 ,219 times. The total
number of publications printed in an entire
year in North Carolina will supply only
four copies to each inhabitant, equivalent to
one paper to every soul once in three
months. Mississippi, Florida, and Arkan-
sas do but little better, furnishing five
copies per year, Alabama, Minnesota
S)uth Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia
all print less than enough to give each in
habitant paper once in five weeks, while
California gives 81 copies per year, exceed
ing every other State except New York,
which prints 1l3 copies per year for every
soul within its borders. As New York
papers circulate everywhere, while those of
California do not go very much out of the
State, it is evident that the papers issued
there have better local support than in
any other State of the American Union.
In the District of Columbia we find that
one newspaper is published for every three
square miles of territory. Massachusetts
has one to 30 square miles, and Rhode
Island one to so; then comes New York
with one to 81; Connecticut has one to 60,
New Jersey one to 63, Texas one to 2,345,
Florida one to 1903; while in the terri
tories one newspaper spreads its circulation
over no less than Ia ,465 square miles.
There are 5ls papers in the United States
which print more than 5000 copies each
issue, and II which print more than 1OO,-
600. The New York Weekly has the
largest circulation given : among the politi-
cal mediums the Weekly Tribune takes the
lead, and among the agricultural weeklies
Moore's Rural Neto YorAer stands first.
The New York Iadq'enae7a is the largest
paper, and has the largest circulation of
any religious paper.
Nearly 1000 papers are printed on the
auxiliary plan-that is, on sheets purchased
rom New York, Chicago and other centres,
fwith one side already printed. This num-
Der has more than doubled within one
year. More than 900 new newspapers
have been established :since the first of
March, 1870, and the number of new ones
announced since January LIST, 1871, has av-
eraged nearly four per day. The number
of suspensions is about one-fourth as large
as that of the new issues announced.
Messrs. George p Rowell & Co. assert
that the number of newspapers issued has