List of newspapers in the United States
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This is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in the United States.
As of 2014[update], the United States had 1,331 daily newspapers.[1]
Contents
Top 10 newspapers by circulation[edit]
The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by weekday circulation, including digital circulation.[2]
| Rank | Newspaper | Primary locality |
Headquarters state or district |
Total average circulation[3] |
Owner | Nameplate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA Today | McLean, Virginia | Virginia | 1,621,917 | Gannett Company | 
|
| 2 | The Wall Street Journal | New York City | New York | 1,011,200 | News Corp | 
|
| 3 | The New York Times | New York City | New York | 483,701 | The New York Times Company | 
|
| 4 | New York Post | New York | New York | 426,129 | News Corp | 
|
| 5 | Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles | California | 417,936 | Nant Capital | 
|
| 6 | The Washington Post | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 254,739 | Nash Holdings | 
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| 7 | Star Tribune | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 251,822 | Star Tribune Media Company LLC | 
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| 8 | Newsday | Melville | New York | 251,473 | Newsday Media | 
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| 9 | Chicago Tribune | Chicago | Illinois | 238,103 | Tribune Publishing | 
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| 10 | Boston Globe | Boston | Massachusetts | 230,756 | John W. Henry | 
|
Longest running newspapers[edit]
- The Virginia Gazette (1736)
- The New Hampshire Gazette (1756)
- Hartford Courant (1764, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States)
- The Register Star (Hudson, NY, 1785)
- Poughkeepsie Journal (1785)
- The Augusta Chronicle (1785)
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 1786)
- Daily Hampshire Gazette (September 1786)
- 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)
- Press-Republican (April 12, 1811)[4]
- The Fayetteville Observer (1816)
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1819)
- Cherokee Phoenix (1828)
- Ledger-Enquirer (1828, founded as Columbus Enquirer)[5]
- The Post-Standard (1829)
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (1829, founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer)
- The Barnstable Patriot (1830)
- The Boston Post (1831)
- Observer-Dispatch (1817)
- Woodville Republican (1824)
By state and territory[edit]
List of lists of newspapers:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- 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
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Other lists of U.S. newspapers[edit]
- 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 free daily newspapers in the United States
- List of weekly newspapers in the United States
By specialty[edit]
- List of African-American newspapers in the United States
- 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 fictional newspapers in the United States
- List of Jewish newspapers in the United States
- List of LGBT periodicals in the United States
- List of Socialist newspapers 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
By language[edit]
- List of French-language newspapers published in the United States
- List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States
- List of German-language newspapers published in the United States
Defunct[edit]
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Newspaper Circulation Volume". Newspaper Association of America. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ "Top 10 U.S. Daily Newspapers". Cision. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
- ^ "The 10 Most Popular Daily Newspapers In The United States". WorldAtlas. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
- ^ 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 2018-01-18.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
