List of newspapers in the United States

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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 circulation

The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekday paid circulation in 2019.^[3]

Newspaper	Primary service area	Headquarters	Circulation	Owner
USA Today	National	McLean, Virginia	1,621,091	Gannett Company
The Wall Street Journal	New York metropolitan area	New York City	1,011,200	News Corp
The New York Times	New York metropolitan area	New York City	483,701	The New York Times Company
New York Post	New York metropolitan area	New York City	426,129	News Corp
Los Angeles Times	Los Angeles metropolitan area	El Segundo, California	417,936	Nant Capital
The Washington Post	Washington metropolitan area	Washington, D.C.	254,379	Nash Holdings
Star Tribune	Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul)	Minneapolis, Minnesota	251,822	Star Tribune Media Company
Newsday	Long Island, New York	Melville, New York	251,473	Newsday Media Group
Chicago Tribune	Chicago metropolitan area	Chicago, Illinois	238,103	Tribune Publishing Company
The Boston Globe	Boston metropolitan area	Boston, Massachusetts	230,756	Boston Globe Media Partners

Longest-running newspapers

The New Hampshire Gazette (1756)
The Newport (RI) 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)^[4]
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)^[5]
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)
The Mining Journal (1841)
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)

United States newspapers by state and territory

List of lists of newspapers:

Other lists of U.S. newspapers

By specialty

By language

Defunct

List of defunct newspapers of the United States

Notes

^ Watson, Amy. "Number of daily newspapers in the U.S. 1970-2018". statista.com.
^ "Newspaper Circulation Volume". Newspaper Association of America. 4 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "Top 10 U.S. Daily Newspapers". Cision. January 4, 2019. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
^ 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

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

This article includes a mass media-related list of lists.

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[1] Watson, Amy. "Number of daily newspapers in the U.S. 1970-2018". statista.com.

[2] "Newspaper Circulation Volume". Newspaper Association of America. 4 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

[3] "Top 10 U.S. Daily Newspapers". Cision. January 4, 2019. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-26.

[4] About Us", Press-Republican. Originally published as the Plattsburgh Republican, then became the Press-Republican after a merger on October 5, 1942.

[5] "Prospectus for the Columbus Enquirer, January 1828 | TSLAC". www.tsl.texas.gov. Retrieved 2018-01-18.

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v t e Newspapers in the United States (North America)
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Federal district	Washington, D.C.
Insular areas	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
Lists of newspapers	African-American Alternative Business By circulation Defunct Family-owned French-language German-language International Jewish LGBT National Serving cities over 100,000 Spanish-language Student Supermarket tabloids Underground Weekly

v t e List of newspapers in North America
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