Business Herald readership grows

The number of people reading Friday's Business Herald liftout continued to soar in the latest Nielsen national newspaper survey.

Some 357,000 people read each Friday liftout - four times as many as any other weekly business magazine - in the 12 months to the end of September.

The number of people reading the section as part of the Herald rose by 50,000. On average, readership of the daily business section rose by 13 per cent.

The daily Herald is read by 568,000 people and the combined print edition and website readership is up 5.5 per cent for the 12 months, to 685,000 a day.

The readership survey is a continuous, face-to-face survey of 12,000 people around the country.