New york times readership decline. The publisher added 273000 new online subscribers in the third quarter for a total of four million digital. On sunday may 19 new york times finance editor david enrich got a request from a producer at msnbc to appear on rachel maddows show the following nightenrich had a red hot front page story. Advertisers not so much.
Weekday circulation of the new york times from 2000 to 2019 published by amy watson apr 17 2020 in 2019 the average weekday circulation of the new york times was 443 thousand copies. By the time i was ten i came home from school to immerse myself in its pages enthralled as the outside world enveloped me each evening at my parents kitchen table. Readers continue to shower the new york times with money.
In keeping with a trend that has affected other news organizations during the pandemic the times attracted new readers while the money it brought in from advertising plummeted. The times itself reported on wednesday that the new york times company earned an operating profit of 379 million in the second quarter of this yeardown from last year but still pretty.