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News magazines: Digital subscriptions (2016)

Year Average digital subscriptions
2011 13,174
2012 32,254
2013 30,782
2014 33,902
2015 35,964

Note: Includes 13 news magazines focusing on business journalism, politics, culture or technology for which digital subscriptions were available. Data for the 13 are inconsistent until 2013. Forbes does not report digital circulation and so is not included in this analysis. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of Alliance for Audited Media data. “State of the News Media 2016”

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