Newspaper sales in Scotland

[Gypsum_Fantastic]

Originally Posted by Scottish_Republican

Grrr! The P&J is hardly a "local". Alright, some of the content can be provincial, but its circulation is greater than that of the Scotsman, and discusses the greater part of Scotland, unlike the Scotman again.

The error would be mine. I'm not aware of the P&J's circulation 'area' without doubting its level of circulation. So I pinned it down as a 'local' albeit a successful one.

Originally Posted by Scottish_Republican

The Sunday Post which gets a mere £8960, is also one of the highest circulation papers.

Strangely, I couldn't find the circulation figures for the Post. Perhaps it doesn't record them. I know that it didn't allow trade union membership for years which is perhaps why the Labour administration, maintaining a nominal link with their union paymasters, have not rewarded them. It's also why there was no staff names and just 'By Our Staff Reporter' and 'By Our Correspondent'. Though I've no explanation as to why they never used photographs for years and relied on drawings. A gentle, more innocent, era.

[Scottish_Republican]

Originally Posted by Gypsum_Fantastic

The error would be mine. I'm not aware of the P&J's circulation 'area' without doubting its level of circulation. So I pinned it down as a 'local' albeit a successful one

The P&J gets a decent circulation in at least 2/3 of the country. The Scotsman gets a lower circulation, but most of which tends to be in east central Scotland, and the Tweed valley.

In addition, the P&J reports on both northern news and Central Belt news; the Scotsman reports on the central belt, but its coverage of anywhere north of Dunfermline is as scanty as English-based "national" news programmes on Scotland.