The Sydney Morning Herald remains the most-read news publication in Australia in print, web, tablet and mobile, with just under 1 million more readers than its closest rival. 
According to Enhanced Media Metrics Australia, the SMH had a total monthly audience of 5.2 million in   July. Its closest rival, News Corporation tabloid The Daily Telegraph, had 4.2 million.
The total SMH audience slipped 4.8 per cent, compared with the same period a year earlier. The Daily Telegraph reported a fall of 4.6 per cent in the same period.
Fairfax's Melbourne-based metropolitan publication The Age came in fourth with 3.2 million readers, down 5.5 per cent. It had News Corp's national broadsheet The Australian behind it with a total audience of 3.1 million, which was down 2.1 per cent from the previous year.
The Age's Melbourne rival The Herald Sun held third with 4 million readers, down 7.8 per cent against   July 2014.
AFR.com has continued to reap the benefits of its website redesign with total web traffic up 26.5 per cent compared with a year earlier.
The increase in digital audience helped offset a decline in print as The Australian Financial Review's total monthly audience increased 3.9 per cent to 1.5 million in   July compared with a year earlier, while print readership slipped 7 per cent to 920,000.
According to EMMA data, 9 out of 10 consumers aged 14 and over read newspaper content in its print or digital formats during the past month, reaching 16.3 million people for the month in Australia.
"The continued growth in mobile audience illustrates that the influence of newspaper journalism is transcending traditional media channels," The Newspaper Works chief executive Mark Hollands said.
"The quality of this audience is an important facet of the value newspaper media brings to advertisers."