Smaller dailies buck trend of circulation decline

The 538 U.S. daily newspapers that are clients of the Audit Bureau of Circulations lost 2.5 percent of their circulation from April through September, Editor and Publisher reports, but several small dailies, some of them serving rural areas, gained circulation (expressed as a Monday-to-Friday daily average). They included:

• The Dothan (Ala.) Eagle -- up 6.03% to 33,546
• The Bulletin, Bend, Ore. -- up 7.21% to 32,369
• News Herald, Panama City, Fla. -- up 2.44% to 28,526
• The Banner-Herald, Athens, Ga. -- up 2.39% to 26,569
• Citrus County Chronicle, Crystal River, Fla. –- up 2.57% to 26,303
• The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis. -- up 4.45% to 26,024
• The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa. -- up 3.16% to 24,929
• The Montana Standard, Butte -- up 3.42% to 14,732
• Redlands (Cal.) Daily Facts -- up 5.14% to 6,852
• The Shawano (Wis.) Leader -- up 6.01% to 6,505
• The Times, Weirton, W. Va. -- up 2.43% to 5,310
• The Journal-Register, Medina, N.Y. -- up 4.07% to 2,787