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News magazines: Single copy sales (2016)

Year Average single copy sales
2011 57,377
2012 48,902
2013 44,766
2014 44,224
2015 42,915

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

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