Daily newspaper readership increased 1 percent in the top 25 markets to 53.8 million according to an analysis of Spring 2005 Mediamark Research Inc. data released Wednesday by the National Newspaper
Network. Readership by women rose 2.3 percent to 26.2 million. The gain in MRI's Spring report follows a gain of 1.5 percent in MRI's Fall 2004 release of NNN 25 readership. -- J.M.
