Both titles enjoyed massive circulation boosts after the News of the World closure – the People to more than 800,000 and the Daily Star Sunday to more than 700,000.
Northern & Shell stablemates New! and Star, which each saw massive circulation gains in the last ABC period, slipped back with year-on-year sales falls of 6.4% and 12.5%, respectively.
June 21 , 1806Paris, France April 27 , 1881Paris, France Émile de Girardin, (born June 21 , 1806 Paris died April 27 , 1881 Paris) popular French journalist, called the Napoleon of the press for his success in publishing inexpensive newspapers with massive circulations.
And the massive circulations of these rags meant they could afford to pay the writers more than the leading science-fiction magazines of the time, such as Analog or Galaxy.
But the popular mythology that both Guardian and Observer suffered a massive haemorrhaging of circulation doesn't stand up to scrutiny - not that the editors knew it at the time.
But Marshall is skeptical of extraterrestrial influence, saying his guess would be that a massive change in ocean circulation or ocean chemistry, possibly after a continental collision or rift, caused the extinction.
OK!'s circulation received a massive boost from the Beckham scoop, selling 1.5m copies with the wedding issue, quadruple its normal sales figures at the time.
He added that the BBC was a "massive taxpayer-funded mouthpiece for tiny circulation leftist Guardian".
But with high maintenance costs and a hugely inefficient ratio of rentable space to circulation, it proved a massive failure, left empty since the 1980s economic crash and now gutted and partly squatted.
