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 |
Note: The Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE) has substantial circulation in Western Iowa.