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 | Primary service area | Headquarters | Total | Subscribers | Print circulation | Year | Owner | Nameplate |
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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 |
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:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- American Samoa
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- US Virgin Islands
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Other lists of U.S. newspapers
- List of free daily newspapers in the United States
- List of international newspapers originating in the United States
- List of national newspapers in the United States
- List of newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United States
- List of weekly newspapers in the United States
By specialty
- 19th-century newspapers that supported the Prohibition Party
- List of African American newspapers in the United States
- English-language press of the Socialist Party of America
- List of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States
- List of business newspapers in the United States
- List of family-owned newspapers in the United States
- List of Jewish newspapers in the United States
- List of LGBT periodicals in the United States
- List of student newspapers in the United States
- List of supermarket tabloids in the United States
- List of underground press in the United States
- Category:Asian-American press
- Category:Ethnic press in the United States
By language
- List of French-language newspapers published in the United States
- List of German-language newspapers published in the United States
- List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States
Defunct
See also
- Associated Press
- Lists of newspapers
- List of newspapers in the world by circulation
- List of newspapers in Canada
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.
References
- Alliance for Audited Media Research & Data
- Top 100 US Newspapers Listed by Circulation at ThePaperboy.com
- U.S. Newspapers Currently Received at the Library of Congress
External links
- U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
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