List of newspapers in the United States

A girl holding a copy of The Washington Post , reporting the Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 21, 1969

As of 2025, the United States had 938 ^[1] daily newspapers that were printed and distributed in the nation. ^[2] 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. ^[3]

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. ^{[4] [3]}

Newspaper	Primary service area	Headquarters	Total	Digital Subscribers	Print circulation	Year	Owner	Nameplate
The New York Times	New York Metro Area, National, International	New York City	11,550,400	11,300,000 [5]	250,400 [6]	1851	The New York Times Company
The Wall Street Journal	New York Metro Area, National, International	New York City	4,612,000	4,200,000 [7]	412,000 [8]	1889	News Corp
The Washington Post	Washington Metropolitan Area, National	Washington, D.C.	2,297,000	2,200,000 [9]	97,000 [10]	1887	Nash Holdings
Los Angeles Times	Los Angeles Metropolitan Area	El Segundo, California	354,100	275,000 [11]	79,100 [6]	1881	Nant Capital
The Boston Globe	Boston Metropolitan Area	Boston, Massachusetts	302,807	257,211 [12]	45,596 [13]	1872	Boston Globe Media Partners
USA Today	National	McLean, Virginia	245,812	142,212	103,600 [6]	1982	USA Today Co.
Chicago Tribune	Chicago metropolitan area	Chicago, Illinois	209,271	148,771 [14]	60,500 [6]	1847	Tribune Publishing Company
Minnesota Star Tribune	Twin Cities (Minneapolis–St. Paul)	Minneapolis, Minnesota	173,000	102,000	71,000 [15]	1867	Star Tribune Media Company
Newsday	Long Island, New York	Melville, New York	122,300	47,000 [16]	75,300 [6]	1940	Newsday Media Group
New York Post	New York Metro Area	New York City	122,100	n/a	122,100 [6]	1801	News Corp

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) ^[17]
• The Repository (March 30, 1815) (established as The Ohio Repository, it is the oldest in the state of Ohio) ^[18]
• 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) ^[19]
• 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 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) ^[20]
• The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States)
• The Oregonian (1850)
• Deseret News (1850) ^[21]
• 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)
• 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) ^[22]
• Organized Labor (1900)

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 American 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

• List of defunct newspapers of the United States

See also

• Journalism portal

• Associated Press
• Lists of newspapers
• List of newspapers in the world by circulation
• List of newspapers in Canada
• List of historical societies in the United States

References

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11. Scire, Sarah (January 13, 2025). "The L.A. Times sees subscriber bump during wildfire coverage, despite removing paywall". niemanlab.org. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
12. "Boston Globe print circulation down by half since pre-pandemic". Boston Business Journal. October 30, 2025. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
13. "Boston Globe print circulation down by half since pre-pandemic". Boston Business Journal. October 30, 2025. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
14. Christensen, Dan (December 18, 2024). "The long goodbye of Florida's newspapers - read all about it". Florida Bulldog. Retrieved November 30, 2025.
15. Platt, Adam (September 10, 2025). "Strib to Shutter Print Facility". Twin Cities Business. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
16. Majid, Aisha (February 29, 2024). "Paying for local news online: Paywalled US local news titles ranked". Press Gazette. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
17. About Us", Press-Republican . Originally published as the Plattsburgh Republican, then became the Press-Republican after a merger on October 5, 1942.
18. Sereno, Dave (February 28, 2015). "Repository set to celebrate 200 years". www.cantonrep.com. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
19. "Prospectus for the Columbus Enquirer, January 1828". www.tsl.texas.gov. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
20. "Taunton Daily Gazette (Taunton [Mass.]) 1848-Current". www.loc.gov. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
21. "Deseret News". www.deseret.com. December 21, 2023. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
22. "History Of The Day" . Retrieved November 29, 2025.

External links

• U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
• Top 100 US Newspapers Listed by Circulation at ThePaperboy.com
• U.S. Newspapers Currently Received at the Library of Congress