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News magazines: Circulation (2016)

Year Average overall circulation
2011 940,000
2012 943,000
2013 946,000
2014 943,000
2015 923,000

Note: Includes 14 news magazines focusing on business journalism, politics, culture or technology. Numbers are rounded. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of Alliance for Audited Media data. “State of the News Media 2016”

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