'WSJ,' 'USA Today' Buck Declining Circ Trend

America's two biggest newspapers managed to tread water, but just about everyone else showed signs of sinking in the most recent release of numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, No. 1 and 2, respectively, in weekday circulation, were both up by less than 1 percent for the six months ending March 31. But after that, it gets ugly. Every other paper in the top 15 lost circulation, with the Dallas Morning News breaking the double-digit mark. (Its weekday average was 368,313, down 10.6 percent year-over-year.)

Below are the numbers released this morning; Editor & Publisher has more here.

USA Today
Circulation for six months ending March 31 2008: 2,284,219
Pct. change vs. 07: 0.27

Wall Street Journal
2,069,463
0.35%

New York Times
1,077,256
-3.85%

Los Angeles Times
773,884
-5.13%

New York Daily News
703,137
-2.09%

New York Post
702,488
-2.35%

Washington Post
673,180
-3.57%

Chicago Tribune
541,663
-4.44%

Houston Chronicle
494,131
-1.79%

Arizona Republic
413,332
-4.70%

Newsday
379,613
-4.68%

San Francisco Chronicle
370,345
-4.20%

Dallas Morning News
368,313
-10.59%

Boston Globe
350,605
-8.34%

Newark Star-Ledger
345,130
-7.38%