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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 subscribers and print circulation[edit]

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
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[edit]

• 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[edit]

List of lists of newspapers:

Other lists of U.S. newspapers[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• List of defunct newspapers of the United States

See also[edit]

• Associated Press
• Lists of newspapers
• List of newspapers in the world by circulation
• List of newspapers in Canada

Notes[edit]

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

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