Northcliffe titles reach over 5.8m

Northcliffe Media's stable of newspapers have a combined readership of over 5.8 million, regional ABC figures published for the first half of this year show.

The publisher's 17 paid-for daily titles have a combined readership of 1.6 million. The 28 paid-for weekly papers and series posted a combined readership of 1.3 million.

Northcliffe’s 40 free weeklies, and editions, posted a combined readership of 3.2 million, on distribution of 2.39 million.

All figures are based on de-duplicated average issue readership (A.I.R.).

Source: JICREG Jan-Jun 2009 (de-duplicated AIR)