, the United States had 938 daily newspapers that were printed and distributed in the nation. Newspapers' audiences can be nationwide, regional, local, or focused on particular demographic groups and interests. While traditionally focused on printed publications, many major newspapers now have significantly more online subscribers than print readers.
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.
Longest-running newspapers
- The New Hampshire Gazette (1756)
- 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 (1806)
- The Bourbon County Citizen (1807) (established as The Western Citizen, it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky)
- Press-Republican (April 12, 1811)
- The Repository (March 30, 1815) (established as The Ohio Repository, it is the oldest in the state of Ohio)
- 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)
- Star-Gazette (1828, founded as Elmira Gazette, the first newspaper of the now 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)
- Detroit Free Press (1831)
- New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (1834, oldest non-English newspaper, claims to be oldest that has never missed a publication date)
- The Blade (Toledo) (1835)
- The Taos News (El Crepúsculo de la Libertad) (1835)
- The Baltimore Sun (1837)
- The Times Picayune (1837, founded as The Picayune)
- The Mining Journal (1841)
- The Plain Dealer (1842)
- Boston Herald (1846)
- The Newport Daily News (1846)
- The Chicago Tribune (1847)
- The Daily Standard (Celina, Ohio, 1848)
- Taunton Daily Gazette (1848)
- The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States)
- The Oregonian (1850)
- Deseret News (1850)
- Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851)
- Ellsworth American (1851)
- The New York Times (1851)
- The Express-Times (1855)
- The Florida Times-Union (1864, founded as The Florida Union)
- San Francisco Chronicle (1865)
- Parsons Sun (1871)
- The Detroit News (1873)
- The Daily Journal (New Jersey) (1875)
- The Daily Item (Lynn) (1877)
- The Washington Post (1877)
- The Day (New London) (1881)
- Organized Labor (1900)
United States newspapers by state and territory
List of lists of newspapers:
Other lists of American newspapers
By specialty
By language
Defunct
See also
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