The circulation drop convinced Mr. Coz that the weekly tabloid had become a little too gamy for many people waiting at supermarket checkout lines.

The Times Herald estimated the features loss cost it a permanent circulation drop of 10,800, which its experts calculated was worth the $33 million.

As a regional morning newspaper, The Journal Gazette has been more successful than many newspapers in minimizing the circulation drop affecting most big daily newspapers.

Mr. Silverman attributed the circulation drop to cutbacks at the television networks, among other factors.

One of the surprises in the figures released yesterday was a circulation drop of 9.3 percent for O: The Oprah Magazine, published by Hearst.

Despite their circulation drops, all the magazines have said that ad pages are actually up.

Newsday's total daily circulation drop was the biggest, in terms of percentage, among the country's largest 25 newspapers.

In an interview last month, Mr. Johnson acknowledged that the circulation drops were a problem for the paper.

The association that owns the station and The Forward, now published weekly, has seen the newspaper's circulation drop and its losses increase to more than $2 million a year.

The circulation drop occurred under the editorship of Pieter Broertjes, who gave up his 20-year tenure in 2010.