List of newspapers in the United States
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
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
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Primary service area
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Headquarters
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Subscribers
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Print circulation
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Owner
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Nameplate
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The New York Times
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New York metropolitan area
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New York City
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9,126,330
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8,830,000
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296,330
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1851
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The New York Times Company
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The Wall Street Journal
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New York metropolitan area
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New York City
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3,779,650
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3,170,000
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609,650
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1889
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News Corp
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The Washington Post
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Washington metropolitan area
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Washington, D.C.
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2,635,980
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2,500,000
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135,980
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1887
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Nash Holdings
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USA Today
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National
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McLean, Virginia
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2,132,640
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2,000,000
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132,640
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1982
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Gannett Company
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Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles metropolitan area
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El Segundo, California
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618,760
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500,000
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118,760
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1881
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Nant Capital
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago metropolitan area
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Chicago, Illinois
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518,190
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436,000
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82,190
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1847
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Tribune Publishing Company
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The Boston Globe
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Boston metropolitan area
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Boston, Massachusetts
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315,380
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254,880
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60,500
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1872
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Boston Globe Media Partners
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Star Tribune
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Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul)
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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191,920
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100,000
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91,920
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1867
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Star Tribune Media Company
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New York Post
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New York metropolitan area
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New York City
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135,980
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n/a
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135,980
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1801
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News Corp
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Newsday
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Long Island, New York
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Melville, New York
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86,850
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n/a
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86,850
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1940
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Newsday Media Group
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Longest-running newspapers
- 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)[5]
- 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
List of lists of newspapers:
Other lists of U.S. newspapers
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See also
Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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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