US: audit finds Hoy overstated circulation by 46%
More figures revealed in light of the circulation scandals: "Tribune Co.'s Hoy newspaper, one of several U.S. papers caught up in a circulation scandal, overstated circulation at its New York edition by more than 46 percent last year, an industry monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Audit Bureau of Circulations, which tracks circulation at newspapers and magazines, put average daily circulation of the Spanish-language paper at 49,681 copies for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2003, down 46.4 percent from the 92,604 copies that the paper originally reported. The findings are in line with Tribune's September estimate that revised daily circulation likely would be in a range of 45,000 to 55,000 copies for the 12 months. Hoy publisher Digby Solomon Diez said in a statement that the newspaper "will continue to cooperate fully with ABC on its ongoing audits." The ABC audit also found that Hoy inflated circulation of its Sunday edition by 23.3 percent. Average circulation should have totaled 25,465 on Sundays, compared to the 33,198 copies originally reported by Hoy."
Source: Reuters, see also the New York Post
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