Readership, although relatively low, is probably twice as much, since newspapers are usually read by more than one person. That's how Diario Libre became of the most popular newspapers read in the afternoon, despite Diario Libre prints and distribute their products in the mornings, not afternoons.In a nation with way over 9 million people, less than 400,000 newspapers are printed each day, and over a quarter of them are Diario Libre.
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Readership, although relatively low, is probably twice as much, since newspapers are usually read by more than one person. That's how Diario Libre became of the most popular newspapers read in the afternoon, despite Diario Libre prints and distribute their products in the mornings, not afternoons.
There are other factors that have to be taken into account in that comparison, since the country's population does includes babies, kids, the incarcerated population, the blind; in short, people that don't read papers in any society.
What are the newpapers with the highest circulation in the DR? What about SD and Santiago separately?
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Why would a Dominican read a newspaper when all they have to do is turn on the TV and somebody is reading the newspaper to them? I once asked a Dominican here in USA why her family didn't watch the news on the Spanish channels. Her reply was that they use too many big words.
In the DR there's an independent institution in charge of keeping tabs on the circulation of the printed press. This institution is the Circulation Audit Office *Instituto Verificador de Circulaciones (IVC). The IVC is a member of the International Federation of Audit Bureaus of Circulations (IFABC) based in Switzerland.
The circulation figures are available to anyone who requests it to the Institute. Not all the printed media opted in to be certified by the IVC in the DR. Most of the oldest and largest papers do runs above 100,000 a day, the medium ones go about 50,000 and the smaller ones can go from 25,000 to as little as 500 per day.
On the other hand, Dominican papers are very, very interactive in circulation based on demand from the week before. You can find that on some weeks the papers run very low in the news stands and during others they seem a lot in supply.
The internet is killing the printed media faster than they can find ways to attract new readers in the DR, just like it's happening elsewhere the net is becoming more the norm...