Knight Ridder's largest investor, Private Capital Management, has demanded that the San Jose, Calif.-based media company put itself up for sale.

Most analysts attribute the company's woes to an ongoing nationwide decline in newspaper readership. Across the country, average readership has declined 2.6% on weekdays and 3.1% on Sundays. Here's how local papers stack up:

Newspaper	Daily Circulation	6-Month Change	Sunday Circulation	6-Month Change
Miami Herald	291,198	-4.0%	401,187	-3.6%
South Florida Sun-Sentinel	227,294	-2.7	322,445	-4.0%
El Nuevo Herald	85,534	-3.0	99,882	No change
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation For more information: accessabc.com/freereports.htm