Circulation at the UK’s regional daily newspapers was down by an average of 17% year-on-year in the first half of 2024.

This was a slower rate of decline than in the same period a year ago, when the regional dailies audited by ABC were down by an average 20%. And it is slightly higher than in the first half of 2022 (the same period two years ago), when we calculated a 16% fall across the daily market.

Excluding digital editions, the average print circulation decline in the first half of this year was 16%.