New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-16
STATISTICS OF AMERICAN JOUR.
NALISM.

| 1871" just issued by Messrs. George L. Row
ell & Co., proprietors of the American Ad
vertising Agency of New York city, contains
certain tables of statistics which have beer
compiled with care, and can be relied upor
as substantially correct. They cover field
of research which no statisician 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 73 to be
added for the Territories, and 353 are printed
in the Dominion of Canada, and 90 in the
British Colonies, making grand total OF
6438, of which 637 are daily, l18 tri-weekly,
l29 semi-weekly, 4642 weekly, 81 bi-weekly,
100 semi-menthly, us monthly, IA bi-
monthly, and 81 are issued quarterly. New
York has the largest number of publica-
tions, 1874, of which 81 are printed in New
York city, and Nevada has the smallest
number issued in any State-only Is.
Nevada has more daily than weekly papers,
ard 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 3s, and California has
"a, being the fourth ON the list. Delaware
and Florida have each one daily paper.
Kansas has as many as Vermont, West
Virginia, Mississippi and Arkansas COM
bined. Nebraska and Nevada have each
more dailies than either Oregon, Rhode
Virginia, Arkansas, Delaware Florida,
Maine, or Mississippi.
Of the 73 publications issued regularly in
the territories 13 are daily and so weekly,
tri-weekly, semi-weekly, 1 appears
monthly, semi-monthly, and | bi-weekly.
The papers of New York State have the
largest circulation averaging 74ll each is
sue. Massachusetts is second, with 5709
average; then comes the District of Colum-
bia with 1923. Nevada has the smallest
average circulation, only Sic, while Florida
averages 6l6, Arkansas ESQ., Texas 70l, and
Mississippi 753. The average circulation of
all daily papers published is 2l7, of the
weeklies 1898, and of the monthlies 408l.
The average edition of all the papers printed
is lS42, which, multiplied by 643S, the entire
Sc, II
the number of copies in which an advertise
ment would appear if inserted once in all
The same advertisement, if continued one
year, would be printed the enormous num-
Der of ,499, ,922, ,2l9 times. The total num-
Der 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 Arkansas do
but little better, furnishing five copies
per year. Alabama Minnesota, South Caro-
lima, Texas and West Virginia all print less
than enough to give each inhabitant paper
once in five weeks, while California gives
eighty-two copies per year, exceeding
every ether State except New York, which
prints one hundred and thirteen copies per
year for every soul within its borders. AS
New York papers circulate everywhere,
while those of California do not go much
out of the State, it is evident that the
papers issued there have better local sup
port than 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 thirty square miles, and Rhode
Island one to fifty; then comes New York
with one to ffty-seven; Connecticut has one
to sixty, New Jersey one to sixty-three,
Texas one to two thousand three hundred
and forty-fve, Florida one to two thousand
six hundred and ninety three, while in the
territories one newspaper spreads its cir
culation over no less than fourteen thou
sand four hundred and sixty-fve square
miles.
There are five hundred and forty-eight
papers in the United States which print
more than FIVE thousand copies each issue,
and eleven which print more than one hun
dred thousand. The New York Weekly has
the largest circulation given; among the
political mediums the New York weekly
Tribune takes the lead, and, among the
agricultural weeklies, Moore's Rural Ner
Yorker stands first. The New York hide
pendent is the largest paper and has the
largest circulation of any religious paper.
Nearly one thousand papers are printed on
the auxiliary plan-that is, on sheets pur-
chased from New York, Chicago and other
centres, with one side already printed.
This number has more than doubled within
one year. More than one thousand new
have been established since the
first of March, 1870, and the number of new
ones announced since January l, 1871, has
averaged nearly four per day. The num-
Der of suspensions is about One-f0urth as
large as that of the new issues announced.
Messrs. George P. Rowell & Co. assert that
the number of newspapers issued has fully
doubled within six years.
In looking over the publications devoted
to specialties Tor class publications., we find
the religious largely predominant over any
other class, which shows the interest the
public press takes in the moral and religious
welfare of the country. There are in the
United States 2S3 publications advocating
evangelical or sectarian ideas, with twenty
two in the dominion of Canada, with none
either in the territories or colonies. Of this
number New York city has forty-four, Phil
adelphia twenty three, Boston twenty-one,