Agora-owned Metro is Poland's third most read newspaper, following another Agora title, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Axel Springer-owned Fakt, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday.

Metro's weekly readership, from September 2007 through February 2008, was 2.4 million (8 percent).

Gazeta Wyborcza saw weekly readership of 5.5 million (18 percent), while Fakt had a readership of 5.1 million (17 percent), Newspaper Innovation reported.

Metro's competition in the previous period, Metropol, stopped publication in January 2007.