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A girl holding a copy of
The Washington Post , reporting the
Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 21, 1969
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
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
660,000
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
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 )
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
By specialty
By language
Defunct
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 .
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