The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-06-29
Statistics of American journalism.

Statistics of American journalism.
THE american Newspaper Directory,
for 1871, just issued by Messrs. Geo,
P Rowell & Co, proprietors of the Amer
lean Advertising agency, of New York
City, contains certain tables of statistics
which nave been compiled with care, and
can be relied upon as substantially correct.
They cover a field of research which no
statistician has before touched upon, and
| furnish food for reflection and wonder
| ment The following are a few Of the
many facts which q STUDY OF .Eese tables
reveal:
The whole number of periodicals issued
| in the United States is $685., with q to be
| added for the Territories, and 353 are
printed in the Dominion of Canada, and
% in the British Colonies, making grand
total of CABS, of which 637 are daily, lis
tri-weekly, 1919 semi-weekly, 1912 week
ly, p bi-weekly, 100 semi-monthly, rs
monthly, IA bi-mOnthly, and 60 are issued
quarterly. New York has the largest
number Of publications, S94, 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, and is unique in this
three to twelve times as many weekles as
dailies. Tri-weekly papers are more com
mon in the South than semi weeklies,
while in the Northern States tie facts are
reversed
The largest number of daily papers pub
| lished in any State is So, in New York.
| Pennsylvania is second, with 81. Next
comes Illinois, with s., and California has
| "a, being the fourth on the list Delaware
| and Florida have each l 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
Island, South Carolina, Vermont, West
| Virginia, Arkansas, Delaware. Florida,
Maine or Mississippi.
OF the - publications issued regularly
in the Territories, Is are daily and 80
weekly, tri weekly, semi weekly, APP
| pears monthly, semi monthly, and l BIZ
weekly
The papers of New York State have the
largest circulation, averaging 7,4i1 each
| issue. Massachusetts is second, with 500
average; then comes The District of Co
| lumbia, with 4 ,325. Nevada has the small
est average circulation, only 516, while
| Florida averages GIG, Arkansas $50, Texas
'Ol, and Mississippi 753. The average
circulation of all daily papers published is
2,I1I, of the weeklies 1893, and of the
| monthlies 4,GSi. The average edition of
all the papers printed is SAP, which, null
| tplied by 6,43S, the entire number of pub
| LEGATIONS, gives II Soc 1876 as the number
of copies in which al advertisement would
| appear If inserted once in all. The same
advertisement, if continued one year,
| would be printed tle enormous number of
| Il -
| publications printed in an entire year in
North Carolina viii supply only four cop
| les to each inhGbitant, equivalent to one
paper to every SOU 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 10 give each inhabilant
paper once In hve weeks, while Califor-
MA gives 50 copies per year, exceeding
every other State except New York, which
prints 1l3 copies PEI year for every soul
within its borders. rs New York papers
circulate everywhere, while those OF Cali
tornla do not go very much out of the
State, 1t 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 so square L-iles, and Rhode Is
land one to 30; then comes New York
with one to 81; Connecticut has one to
GO, New Jersey one to CO, Texas one to
: $40, Florida one to 26l3: while in the
Territories one newspaper spreads its cir
culatlon over nc less than 14,405 square
miles
There are 5iS newspapers in the United
States which prints more than 5000 copies
each issue, and II which print more than
100000 The Ne9o I01G Weekly has the
the largest circulation given; among the
political mediums the New York WeeI{v
Tribune takes the lead, AID among the az
rlcultural wecklies, N5Ores RuraI -Ntic
Yorker stands first. The New York Inds.
pendent 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 purchas- |
ed from New York, Chicago and other |
centers, with one side already printed |
This number has more than doubled with |
IN one year More than 1000 new news.
papers have been established since the first |
of March, 1870, snd the number of new |
ones announced since January 1st, 1871, !
has averaged nearly four per day. The |
AAhhiApNA VI ifNIASIpIiS Is dUtUl tuS-lOllTIn
as large as that of the new issues announc-
ed. Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell d Co, assert |
that the number of newspapers issued has |
fully doubled within six years.
In looking over the publications devoted |
to specialties, Cor class publications,) we
hnd 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 SS3 publications |
advocating evangelical and sectarian ideas, !
with % in the Dominion Of Canada, with |
none either in the territories or colonies. |
OF this number New York City has A, |
Philadelphia %, Boston o, while Florida, |
Kansas, Nevada and New Jersey are en-
tlrely unrepresenteG.
The farmers, horticulturists and stock |
ralsers have their interests represented by /
an agricultural press numbering no less |
than 100 publications, many of which are /
gotten up at great expense, and are very |
extensively circulated.
The medical profession enlightens its |
members through the columns of - pub |
LEGATIONS, Of which are weeklies, 80 /
monthlies, semi-monthlies, 3 bi-month. /
lies and II qusrteries-
Nearly, if not ALL the schools of medi- |
cine have their representative organ.
which circulates among its admirers and /
is criticised severely by its cotemporaries. /
whose views differ from it about the |
" healing of the nations" while there are
a number that furnish intelligence of in
terest TO all medical men, as well SIS the /
general reader, without taking sides for or
against any particular school of medi-
cine.
Most of the colleges and many of the
State Boards of Education have their
organ, besides several publ
cations that treat educational matters in
general way. Of this class we have 81 in
the United States and N the Dominion
of Canada They are mostly monthlies.
with an occasional weekly, bi-weekly and
quarterly.
The large cities have their commercial
papers, which sre nesrly al issued
weekly
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