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Average Paid Circulation of Major Iowa Daily Newspapers
For the six months ending September 30, 1999.
Daily Sunday
The Des Moines Register
Des Moines (Polk County)
158,537 254,820
The Gazette
Cedar Rapids-Marion (Linn County)
66,980 81,992
Quad-City Times
Davenport-Bettendorf (Scott County)
63,461 73,408
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City (Woodbury County)
48,175 46,662
Waterloo Courier
Waterloo-Cedar Falls (Black Hawk Co.)
45,831 52,872
Telegraph Herald
Dubuque (Dubuque County) and Illinois
29,113 34,710
Globe-Gazette
Mason City (Cerro Gordo County)
19,681 23,587
The Hawk Eye
Burlington (Des Moines County)
19,487 21,364
The Messenger
Fort Dodge (Webster County)
18,659 21,387
The Ottumwa Courier
Ottumwa (Wapello County)
17,867 .
The Daily Nonpareil
Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie Country)
16,816 20,978
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Iowa City (Johnson County)
15,245 18,534 (Sat)
Clinton Herald
Clinton (Clinton County)
13,735 .
Times-Republican
Marshalltown (Marshall County)
10,519 10,945
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations. 
Note: The Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE) has substantial circulation in Western Iowa.