The latest national newspaper readership figures, released by the National Readership Survey (NRS) today, show the majority of titles shedding readers year on year. The national newspaper sector as a whole is down by 1.3 million readers (1.8%) across the papers listed here.
The Express and Sunday Express are suffering the most, with readerships dropping by 458,000 (17.2%) and 524,000 (18.7%) respectively. The Independent also saw its readership drop back by over 20% during the period. The two Telegraph papers and the two Mail titles are looking healthier, each showing an increase in readers year on year.
The most-read paper is still the News Of The World at 10.5 million readers each week, just in front of News International stablemate the Sun, which has a readership of 9.9 million in this survey.
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