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There are many
newspapers printed and distributed in the United States
.
As of 2018
[update]
, the United States had 1,279
[1]
daily newspapers.
[2]
Top 10 newspapers by subscribers and print circulation
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The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekday
circulation
and paid subscribers in 2023.
[3]
[4]
Newspaper
|
Primary service area
|
Headquarters
|
|
Subscribers
|
Print circulation
|
|
Owner
|
Nameplate
|
The New York Times
|
New York metropolitan area
|
New York City
|
9,126,330
|
8,830,000
|
296,330
|
1851
|
The New York Times Company
|
|
The Wall Street Journal
|
New York metropolitan area
|
New York City
|
3,779,650
|
3,170,000
|
609,650
|
1889
|
News Corp
|
|
The Washington Post
|
Washington metropolitan area
|
Washington, D.C.
|
2,635,980
|
2,500,000
|
135,980
|
1887
|
Nash Holdings
|
|
USA Today
|
National
|
McLean, Virginia
|
2,132,640
|
2,000,000
|
132,640
|
1982
|
Gannett Company
|
|
Los Angeles Times
|
Los Angeles metropolitan area
|
El Segundo, California
|
618,760
|
500,000
|
118,760
|
1881
|
Nant Capital
|
|
Chicago Tribune
|
Chicago metropolitan area
|
Chicago, Illinois
|
518,190
|
436,000
|
82,190
|
1847
|
Tribune Publishing Company
|
|
The Boston Globe
|
Boston metropolitan area
|
Boston, Massachusetts
|
315,380
|
254,880
|
60,500
|
1872
|
Boston Globe Media Partners
|
|
Star Tribune
|
Twin Cities (Minneapolis?Saint Paul)
|
Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
191,920
|
100,000
|
91,920
|
1867
|
Star Tribune Media Company
|
|
New York Post
|
New York metropolitan area
|
New York City
|
135,980
|
n/a
|
135,980
|
1801
|
News Corp
|
|
Newsday
|
Long Island, New York
|
Melville, New York
|
86,850
|
n/a
|
86,850
|
1940
|
Newsday Media Group
|
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Longest-running newspapers
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- The New Hampshire Gazette
(1756)
- The Newport Daily News
(originally published as
The Newport Mercury
in 1758)
- Hartford Courant
(1764, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States)
- The Register Star
(
Hudson, New York
, 1785)
- Poughkeepsie Journal
(1785)
- The Augusta Chronicle
(1785)
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(July 1786)
- Daily Hampshire Gazette
(September 1784)
- The Berkshire Eagle
(1789)
- The Daily Mail
(Catskill, NY, 1792)
- The Recorder
(1792)
- Intelligencer Journal
(1794, now
LNP
)
- Rutland Herald
(1794)
- Norwich Bulletin
(1796)
- The Keene Sentinel
(1799)
- New York Post
(1801)
- The Post and Courier
(1803)
- The Bedford Gazette
(1805)
- Goshen Independent
(published in Goshen New York 1806 ? present)
- The Bourbon County Citizen
(1807) (established as
The Western Citizen
, it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky)
- Press-Republican
(April 12, 1811)
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- The Fayetteville Observer
(1816)
- Observer-Dispatch
(1817)
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(1819)
- Woodville Republican
(1824)
- Kennebec Journal
(1825)
- Cherokee Phoenix
(1828)
- Ledger-Enquirer
(1828, founded as
Columbus Enquirer
)
[6]
- Star-Gazette
(1828, founded as
Elmira Gazette
, the first newspaper of the now massive
Gannett
conglomerate)
- The Providence Journal
(1829)
- The Post-Standard
(1829)
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
(1829, founded as
The Pennsylvania Inquirer
)
- The Stamford Advocate
(1829, founded as
The Stamford Intelligencer
)
- The Barnstable Patriot
(1830)
- The Boston Post
(1831)
- New Yorker Staats-Zeitung
(1834, oldest non-English newspaper, claims to be oldest that has never missed a publication date)
- The Baltimore Sun
(1837)
- The Mining Journal
(1841)
- The Plain Dealer
(1842)
- Boston Herald
(1846)
- The Chicago Tribune
(1847)
- The Daily Standard
(
Celina, Ohio
, 1848)
- Taunton Daily Gazette
(1848)
[7]
- The Santa Fe New Mexican
(1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the
Southwestern
and
Western United States
)
- Deseret News
(1850)
[8]
- Placerville Mountain Democrat
(1851)
- Ellsworth American
(1851)
- The New York Times
(1851)
- The Daily Item (Lynn)
(1877)
- The Washington Post
(1877)
United States newspapers by state and territory
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List of lists of newspapers:
Other lists of U.S. newspapers
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By specialty
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By language
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Defunct
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See also
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Notes
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- ^
Watson, Amy.
"Number of daily newspapers in the U.S. 1970-2018"
.
statista.com
.
- ^
"Newspaper Circulation Volume"
.
Newspaper Association of America
. September 4, 2012. Archived from
the original
on January 20, 2016
. Retrieved
January 20,
2016
.
- ^
Majid, Aisha (April 6, 2023).
"Mail joins 100k Club: Exclusive ranking of world's top paywalled news publishers"
.
Press Gazette
. Retrieved
November 6,
2023
.
- ^
Majid, Aisha (June 26, 2023).
"Top 25 US newspaper circulations: Largest print titles fall 14% in year to March 2023"
.
Press Gazette
. Retrieved
November 6,
2023
.
- ^
About Us"
,
Press-Republican
. Originally published as the
Plattsburgh Republican
, then became the
Press-Republican
after a merger on October 5, 1942.
- ^
"Prospectus for the Columbus Enquirer, January 1828 | TSLAC"
.
www.tsl.texas.gov
. Retrieved
January 18,
2018
.
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"Taunton Daily Gazette (Taunton [Mass.]) 1848-Current"
.
www.loc.gov
. Retrieved
November 19,
2022
.
- ^
"Deseret News"
.
www.deseret.com
. Retrieved
April 13,
2024
.
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