New circulation figures

New weekday circulation figures for the six-month period that ended Sept. 30, compared with comparable figures from a year ago.

Newspaper	Sept. 2005 Circ	Gain/Loss	Change
USA Today	2,296,335	-13,518	-0.59%
The Wall Street Journal	2,083,660	-23,114	-1.10%
The New York Times	1,126,190	5,133	0.46%
Los Angeles Times	843,432	-33,184	-3.79%
Daily News, New York	688,584	-26,468	-3.70%
The Washington Post	678,779	-28,991	-4.09%
New York Post	662,681	-11,708	-1.74%
Chicago Tribune	586,122	-14,866	-2.47%
Houston Chronicle (M-S)	521,419	-33,367	-6.01%
Boston Globe	414,225	-37,246	-8.25%
Arizona Republic (M-S)	411,043	-2,225	-0.54%
San Francisco Chronicle (M-S)	400,906	-79,681	-16.58%
Star-Ledger (N.J.)	400,092	50	0.01%
Star Tribune (Minn.) (M-S)	374,528	-961	-0.26%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution	362,426	-34,674	-8.73%
Philadelphia Inquirer	357,679	-11,635	-3.15%
Detroit Free-Press	341,248	-7,590	-2.18%
Cleveland Plain-Dealer	339,055	-15,845	-4.46%
Oregonian (Portland, Ore.)	333,515	-4,192	-1.24%
San Diego Union-Tribune	314,279	-20,908	-6.24%

The numbers for three newspapers usually in the Top 20 are still being withheld: Newsday, the Dallas Morning News and the Chicago Sun-Times.